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Problems With the Firefox Development Process

Posted by Zonk on from the eyes-on-the-prize dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mike Connor, one of the core Firefox developers, is raising a flag concerning the Mozilla Firefox methodology of development. From his blog: "In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think were in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews." In an earlier entry, he raised concrete concerns about the community involvement. Asa Dotzler recently elaborated on the process, as previously covered on Slashdot."

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  1. Re:They don't need no stinking development process by bcmm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Netscape and CNN are both notably part of the AOL Time Warner media, internet and mind control group. So if you watch CNN's somewhat inaccurate news coverage, you are an AOLer.

    LOLOLOLOLOLLO!!!!!11

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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  2. Re:That's strange... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, what exactly do you think that people do with Firefox? They browse the web, just like they do with Opera.

    When you think of it in those terms, it's kinda not that hard to compare them, ya know?

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  3. It's the memory cache by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The default is to have 51MB of memory cache.
    Read the URL from a post above to see how to fix it.

  4. Re:That's strange... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And a brick can be used as a backscratcher but that doesn't change the fact that it's almost invariably going to be used as a building block, does it?

    For 99.9 percent of users, Firefox is a web browser, Opera is a web browser, MSIE is a web browser, Safari is a web browser, etc, etc. So calling them all web browsers and comparing them to one another is a fair thing to do.

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg