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Problems With the Firefox Development Process
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."
Maybe that's why Firefox is fast and light and Mozilla's slow and bloated.
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Too many cooks
Whoever modded that down, you suck. Get a life. Waste more mod points on me please.
WTF? How old are you? 12?
Faster? Than what? Certainly not IE. Talk to any number of Windows users who actually use both IE and FF and you'll learn that IE is, for the time being, much faster than FF.
Cleaner? Than what? If you mean the code base is smaller than IE, that's probably because it offers many, many less features than IE on Windows or most of the other browsers for Linux.
As to the Linux users, FF is better than nothing.
Looks like the OSS golden child isn't so perfect after all. With all the vulnerabilities and now this, I've happily switched back to the Mozilla suite--which starts up faster than Firefox anyway! Though the vulnerabilities are still there, at least it's a more mature and robust application. Though I'm really eyeing Opera now...
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
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
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?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
The default is to have 51MB of memory cache.
Read the URL from a post above to see how to fix it.
Another Firefox article, another opportunity for me to ask when they're going to stop Firefox nagging me about installing third party plugins.
Sorry I don't wan't to install them and I don't want to be asked about it every time I go to a page with one on.
Enough of the Active-X behaviour already. It was crappy when M$ did it, it's even crappier when Firefox doesn it as they should know better.
"Taking back the web (as long as you install the plugins we tell you to)"
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.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Mozilla.org appears to be schizophrenic. One minute they're praising one of their products as being the greatest thing since sliced bread then as soon as the next 0.1 product comes out, the tried and true stable product is nothing but a piece of shit and anyone still using it is worthless baggage to the Foundation. :P I can't wait to see the shit they talk about their baby Firefox after it grows up and they produce a new product.