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I could’ve sworn that the browser was also called just Mozilla at one point, or was that just always the suite it was part of?
My memory is hazy, but I'm pretty sure Mozilla was a package and most people just didn't install the rest of the package. Everyone called the browser Mozilla because they didn't use the other parts. I could definitely be wrong, though.
If I remember correctly, at one point Mozilla referred to itself as "the godzilla of Mosaic" or something like that.
Mosaic being the first widely available web browser.
I believe the joke was something like it was spelled "Netscape" but pronounced "Mozilla". Web searches (at time of writing) for "pronounced Mozilla" seem to confirm this. I also seem to remember that its user-agent string identifier was "Mozilla" from the earliest version and never contained "Netscape", which goes some way to explaining why I initially forgot the real history and assumed a rebranding to Firefox.