“The Dirty Secret: Navigator 5 was a doomed product. Netscape
wrote Navigator 0.9 from scratch in less than a year and never
rewrote it. They moved from version to version, piling on
features…”
“Things were starting to break down by Navigator 3.0. Netscape
needed to… take the time for a major overhaul. But they were
under attack by Microsoft and didn’t dare to skip a browser
generation.
“Navigator 5 was still based on the original codebase. It was
full of #ifdefs, Win16 support, fake multithreading hacks and
layers of useless code…”