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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:That's strange... by Spy+Handler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now compare their relative footprints when installed (or even the size of the downloads). Pound for pound, Opera is faster, lighter and does more

    I don't know about footprints, but here are the sizes for the full install files I have:

    Opera 7.11j - 12.5 MB
    Moz Firefox - 4.7 MB

    Firefox is lighter at least in this regard.