[scarface_74]

There was never that time.

1. At first it was “works best with Netscape Navigator”

2. Then it was the same with IE

3. Now it’s Chrome.

[plorkyeran]

There was a step in between #2 and #3 where web developers all used FF while non-technical users used IE6, so supporting both was unavoidable. Chrome didn't become dominant until a decade later.

[scarface_74]

And web developers then ignored Safari from 2001-2007 before the iPhone came out…

[glenstein]

I'm with you on 2 and 3, but was Netscape Navigator similarly anti-competitive in a way that is analogous to Chrome or IE?

[scarface_74]

Yes. They added all sorts of proprietary extensions that didn’t go through a standards body. Thad’s how we got the “navigator” object in all browsers.