Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

Crazzaper writes "I have been using Firefox for many years, and the war of the browsers has been around for longer than that. It just so happens that now we have a lot of options out there: IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and others. People are always talking about how one browser is going to take down another, but maybe that's not the issue at all. It seems very possible that one browser, like Firefox, can be taken down by multiple browsers at once, whether or not there was any intention to compete specifically with Firefox. I hadn't seen it this way, but I do now."

Comments

Re:No extensions, no FF killer

[abigor]

This will certainly interest you then: https://chrome.google.com/extensions

Re:Serious inquiry re: Adblock

[d3ac0n]

Adblock blocks ads that NoScript doesn't. I may want Java script to generally run on a specific website. So i would whitelist that site in NoScript. Without Adblock I would then get ads while on that site. With both I can allow scripts while still enjoying an ad-free browsing experience.

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Re:Firefox lite.

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently, the adblockers for chrome still download the ads, they just prevent the ad from displaying

Re:Go get your guns?

[westlake]

What does "survival mode" means in this case? Race in new features?

Find new money. Before Google pulls the plug.

Re:Firefox lite.

[ChronoReverse]

Have you ever considered using a new profile and examining which plugins you use? Because a clean install of FF3.6 certainly won't do that.

Re:Firefox lite.

[Trepidity]

In particular, it's a latency problem for how fast pages render, even if you're not worried about the bandwidth. Slow 3rd-party advertisement and analytics servers still hold up the whole parade with Chrome adblockers: the adblock will run after you've sat around waiting on all that junk to resolve and load. With FF AdBlock's approach, if you block those 3rd-party domains, they get chopped out before the browser even bothers to resolve their DNS.

Re:What they need...

[mcrbids]

Hey guys; remember how it was supposed to be a fast browser?

While FF has certainly gained features, it hasn't slowed down while doing so. In fact, it's seen fairly dramatic performance INCREASES. FF hasn't gotten any slower; expectations have sharply risen.

We now expect to be able to program a 3D FPS in Javascript and CSS. The very idea was considered laughable just a few years ago. I've spent the last year building a statistical computation software that's entirely web-based, and entirely written in javascript. This, too, would have been a laughable goal if not for the dramatic performance improvements in FF and Chrome. (We don't currently support IE8 because it's just too slow; hopefully IE9 will be worthy of supporting)