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Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape Navigator?
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Inspired by comments on the previous question Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox? (Answer: Yes).
In 1998, Netscape released a large amount of their existing source code as open source, and this became the basis of the Mozilla and eventually Firefox code bases. Over the years, large sections of this have been rewritten, although some of those rewrites were themselves started within Netscape (e.g. the "NGLayout" engine which became "Gecko").
Are there any sections of code in Firefox version 74.0 (released March 2020) which are basically unchanged from code which was actually part of pre-Mozilla Netscape releases (Communicator 4.0 or earlier)?
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