Mozillazine points out that today is the fifth anniversary of the release of the in-development Netscape Navigator 5.0 codebase that spawned the Mozilla project.
It took somewhat longer than many people expected to become usable (the M13 build I first downloaded 3 years ago was painful, and Netscape 6 was still a dog) but performance, stability and functionality have all been improving steadily, and it's now shaping up to be a damn good browser.
I'll allow myself a small flush of pride that I helped it get this far (if only in a small way). Here's to the next 5 years...
Edit: How spooky is that? Today also saw bugzilla get its 200,000th bug report. Which was, of course, rapidly VERIFIED INVALID.
It took somewhat longer than many people expected to become usable (the M13 build I first downloaded 3 years ago was painful, and Netscape 6 was still a dog) but performance, stability and functionality have all been improving steadily, and it's now shaping up to be a damn good browser.
I'll allow myself a small flush of pride that I helped it get this far (if only in a small way). Here's to the next 5 years...
Edit: How spooky is that? Today also saw bugzilla get its 200,000th bug report. Which was, of course, rapidly VERIFIED INVALID.