• monobot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I do not, please inform me, since as far as I know Firefox was always trying to be featurefull browser.

    • phorq@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Maybe they mean lean compared to internet explorer toolbars? But yeah, it’s never been minimal. And I doubt this would really add that much bloat memory-wise while running.

    • CAVOK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It was a fork off the Netscape Navigator which included a news reader, an email client, a browser and a kitchen sink, from what I remember. They took the browser part out and created Firefox, but it was called something else at first. Firebird maybe? Can’t recall.

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      1 year ago

      please inform me

      Mozilla Application Suite contained an email client and a HTML editor, among other things. Firefox was supposed to “just a browser”, so to speak:

      Firefox was created in 2002 under the code name “Phoenix” by members of the Mozilla community who desired a standalone browser rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

      According to the downvotes, hardly anyone remembers, even Mozilla is falling for feature creep again.