I agree - netscape had a big hand in their own implosion. Their codebases had gotten away from them and they had problems managing well after all that growth and hype.

It also didn't help that they went around doing lots of press about how they were going to completely replace the OS layer and kill microsoft when they had basically zero code along those lines.

Sure they had the vision, but it painted a huge (even larger) bullseye on their back while they were busy sinking in their own quicksand.