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Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko
Ars Technica has published an article about Mozilla's commitment to use the Gecko rendering engine instead of using Webkit, which was adopted by Apple and Google for use in the Safari and Chrome browsers. I have been using Chrome on my work PC and find many of its features compelling, and wonder how soon we will see its best innovations in Firefox. Why is Gecko worth keeping if it is outdated and bloated?
Exactly. Once they rewrite Gecko with cool new features, Webkit will be 'outdated' and 'bloated'.
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I'd wager that's due more to Cocoa than anything else.
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Obviously.
If you aren't picky about the details then you don't understand the problem, and thus the solutions
That's bull. I'm just not arrogant enough to say that because I don't see a way to make separate threads as reliable as separate processes, means that no such way exists.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Why? Is it really that big of a deal? Don't open a tab that's going to lock up your browser.
Gee, why didn't I think of that? Develop a magical foresight that allows me to know what actions will cause my applications to crash! Brilliant!
Oh noes! We need this now, if IE has it then FF needs it! Guess we should go ahead and make FF IE5 complient then, since IE is as well. Forget that standards nonsense, IE has it so we need it
This is bloody retarded. I never said anything resembling your idiotic "IE has it, so everyone else must have it" mockery. I said that it's a good feature, so the fact that even IE has it means there's no reason for Firefox not to have it. There's a huge fucking difference.
(which is pretty hard to do in Chrome with all the tabs having the same process name mind you)
Not used Chrome, have you? Chrome has a task manager built-in, which is itself in a separate process, so you can close the processes based on what tab they have, unlike with the Windows task manager.
Me, I'm just not going to open sites that are likely to lock up my browser.
There you go with that magical foresight again. Do tell me how you managed to develop it!
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
I don't know about you, but I'll take stable over lightweight any day. The only word that suffices to describe Firefox's lack of threaded tabs is "shameful". There is no excuse for a modern browser to not have this, especially in light of the fact that their main competitor (IE) is developing it.
Well why don't you fucking write some code so it does? Either that or STFU.
Debian FTW