Mozilla Fixed a 25-Year-Old Bug Originating from Netscape Navigator

TapTechNews May 22nd news, some developers found that Mozilla had fixed a Bug that he had been paying attention to for a long time, which could be traced back to 25 years ago, but at that time there was no Firefox browser yet (the first version was released on November 9, 2004).

Obviously, this Bug was aimed at Netscape Navigator back then (Netscape Communications established the Mozilla community a year before being acquired by AOL in 1999, and Firefox is also considered as the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator).

In fact, Netscape's browser once dominated the market, but then lost to Internet Explorer in the first browser war, and its market share dropped from 90% in the mid-1990s to less than 1% by the end of 2006.

TapTechNews found that at the same time, many 25-year-old Firefox Bugs have also been fixed, such as the following Bug about implementing transparency/semitransparency with hidden preferences.

Firefox browser was released in November 2004, but it came from a project founded by Mozilla community members in 2002, which was called Phoenix at that time.

For its predecessor, Netscape browser was actually developed until December 2007, until AOL announced to stop supporting in early 2008.

For Netscape this company, the most famous is that its employee Brendan Eich created JavaScript, and another engineer Lou Montulli invented Cookie. In addition, the company also developed the SSL protocol to protect the security of online communication.