I hope I won’t come off as patronizing to someone who actually worked at SGI back in the day, but there was no relation between the Mosaic browser and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox. Netscape was made from scratch (albeit by some of the same people who had worked on Mosaic), while Mosaic was bought by Microsoft and became Internet Explorer.
I hope I won’t come off as patronizing to someone who actually worked at SGI back in the day, but there was no relation between the Mosaic browser and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox. Netscape was made from scratch (albeit by some of the same people who had worked on Mosaic), while Mosaic was bought by Microsoft and became Internet Explorer.