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Firefox Losing Its Way?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wrong-side-of-the-bed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has a recap on Firefox 2.0 and its shortcomings. Aside from the technical aspects, the article raises some good questions about the Firefox 'community,' it's future, and what it's goals are at the end of the day. Their conclusion? Firefox 1.5 was a much better open-source project/community model than 2.0 ever will be, and that 'It seems Firefox has lost its way somewhere along the passage to fame.'"

3 of 494 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The source is a fucking mess! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice troll. Looking at bonsai, of the eleven distinct patches checked in on trunk during the last day, two originated with people without CVS access (aka, third parties).

  2. Re:A Few Miss-Steps Maybe by dvice_null · · Score: 4, Informative

    > I think "lost its way" is too strong of a phrase.

    I agree. The developer are mostly focusing on Firefox 3.0 anyway, because of the major improvements it will have. The 2.0 was just a small upgrade in the middle, mostly because of the PR. Because the changes in 3.0 require a lot of development and a lot of testing, they didn't want to hurry it. So I wouldn't judge Firefox because of the 2.0. Better wait for 3.0.

  3. Re:The source is a fucking mess! by MrDrBob · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look in the layout, view, xpcom and xulrunner directories, you'll find a lot of the core code. The browser directory is for the JavaScript and XUL files which make up the interface and product-specific parts of Firefox. :-)