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Does anyone remember Neoplanet? The skinnable browser?

Vaguely. It was around in about '99 or 2000? If I remember correctly it was the IE COM (Webview was it?) object embedded in an app?

Also I remember it being pretty useless outside of looking nice. In retrospect it probably didn't even look that nice, I can't recall.

Yep. It was just a straight up IE view embedded in skinned chrome. When it booted up there was this nice voice that would say "Neoplanet... Online".