Originally Posted by DRfrank
it was re-writen from scratch, but isn't it based off of what they learned from mozilla?
isnt it somewhat based apon the same things?
that's like saying I just built a house and then I went and built another house. I didn't reuse the land or the parts or the supplies but I learned something while building that first house.
Firefox is brand new. Sure there are some things that are similar and there are some ideas carried over... it is a web browser after all. But it is 100% new, re-written code.