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Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight
nk497 writes "Mozilla has succeeded in improving the browser world, and its rivals have outstripped it in terms of features. So what's the point of Firefox, then, wonders Stuart Turton. He suggests it could turn its community of developers to better use than battling it out for browser market share. 'I think Mozilla has a lot more to offer as a kind of roaming software troublemaker. The company has already proven itself brilliant at pulling a community together, offering it direction and spurring innovation in a lifeless market. Now that browsers are healthy, wouldn't it be brilliant if Mozilla started a ruck elsewhere?' And where better to start than the stagnant office suite arena: 'Imagine if Mozilla decided tomorrow to build an office suite. Imagine all those ideas. Imagine how brilliant that could be. Just imagine. Now imagine Firefox 4. Honestly, which one of those are you most excited by?'"
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The problem is Mozilla stopped innovating with Firefox a while ago. The idea was to stop the corps from stagnating. Firefox was a bed of new ideas and so IE and other HAD to follow and keep innovating or at least adopting Firefox features.
But look at FF4. It IS Opera. Just more bloated. If you take a screen shot of each, they look identical other than the logo. Why keep Firefox going if it is no longer innovating, but just stealing ideas itself? Firefox just keeps taking ideas and bloating. Opera, IE, Chrome, Apple are no longer looking at Firefox for how to do things, but rather at each other. If anything they look at Firefox for how not to do things.
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