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		semjada on Sept 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) So he was wrong then? NS6/firefox seems to be doing alright today... Rewriting your OWN codebase from scratch certainly makes it get better with each iteration - as long as "from scratch" implies constantly referring to the old code.

rythie on Sept 4, 2013 [–]

In 2000 Netscape had 19.25% market share, it took 8 years to get back to that position with Firefox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#The...

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