Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.'"

1 of 494 comments (clear)

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

    Nice troll. I'm personally as unqualified to comment on Mozilla source code quality as you are, and I'll definitely not claim everything is perfect (there's been too much abstraction in the past - hence lots of deCOMtamination work now), but every patch that goes into the Mozilla tree gets reviewed critically at least once - most often twice - for code quality, and to point to an example metric that doesn't say much of anything (but neither did you, so that should be familiar ground) - the coverity scan found fewer defects in the Firefox code (0.355) than the average baseline for open source projects (0.434).