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Both Fx 77.0 and 78.0 were released in June of 2020.

The former at the 2^nd June, the latter at the 30^th. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 15:19, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Early 90s, NCSA Mosaic, etc

The early 90s portion of the chart seems very barren. NCSA Mosaic was pretty popular back then. Then there were the early 90s Mosaic Wars (the first browser war, predating MSIE/NS), with NCSA, Spyglass Mosaic, etc. -- 65.94.169.16 (talk) 21:27, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Phoenix

Pretty certain I got a 4 disc CD setup of FreeBSD4.? set from about 98/99 with Phoenix on it, then it had to rebrand to firefox, I had dial-up back then but you could feel the speed.
51.9.225.201 (talk) 20:59, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline is missing Chromium and many of it's descendants

Chromium is the open source browser the is the base of Chrome, the new Microsoft Edge, and many other browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)

Chromium should be acknowledged as the foundation of these browsers and the new Edge should be separated from IE and the old Edge browser.

Yes, there should be much more about Chromium, whether Edge should be separate is debatable since the old Edge is discontinued and the new Edge taking its place. For that matter development on Lunascape seems to have ended, there's a new "Lunascape Phoebe" for macOS, and Windows, and another version of the browser for smartphones, but the company is holding on to the old Lunascape IP, so I guess it's not officially retired. The Maxthon webpage is now private and looks like it's been retired, although apparently it is Chromium based now also. I don't know if development can be said to be continued as long as Chromium is continued?. Some decisions need to be made on when to cease including these browsers and stop the blank colorbars from going on forever. And without hard data on usage numbers of the last three browsers, Lunascape, Maxthon and NetSurf; there's little justification that these three should be included at all. For that matter we could include "Links" the text broswer that pre-dates "Lynx", and was(is?) part of many Linux distros, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. I'm not lobbying for it's inclusion, just that there should be clear criteria for inclusion. And usage numbers might dictate some browsers be dropped from this timeline, and others added. Cuvtixo (talk) 07:22, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]