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Wait... Firefox was Netscape?!
Not just was Netscape, Mozilla was straight up founded by Netscape people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser ;)
I remember using Mosaic on Silicon Graohics machines back in the early ‘90s. It’s was fab for the time.
And yes, Mosaic became Netscape, became Firefox. From the wiki page at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator