Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open

GMGruman writes "Savio Rodrigues writes that Google's latest agreement with Mozilla will ironically fund three new areas of competition between Google and Mozilla — areas that users and open source advocates should cheer on as they will make the Web both better and more open. The alternative, he says, is more control by the likes of Google, Facebook, and Apple."

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Doomed because..

[goruka]

Mozilla people have this strange vision that they can replace everything (OSs, Desktop, Apps, Cellphone and tablet UIs, etc) with HTML5, JavaScript and nothing else. While Im sure that many developers like JavaScript and that HTML5 brings several great features to the open web, most of us programmers definitely DONT want to use it to write all sorts of applications and games. JS+HTML5 are not a silver bullet or general purpose enough. The recent resurgence of native applications is proof of this.

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[hairyfeet]

Notice you had to post AC, that is pretty much all you can do with all the flag waving fangirls around here. And I was talking about their ORIGINAL mission, the one they announced when they switched from the suite to Firefox? Forget that one? hell their whole selling point was "to make the browser leaner and meaner, to get rid of cruft and old code, to make a truly great browser".

Well considering how many people are running to the hills and how even some of the Linux distros are switching to Chromium for default I'd say that mission is a big giant fail wouldn't you? I mean when i can sit on my XP box and literally watch the CPU jump with each letter typed in a fricking text box to steal the chorus of an old K's Choice song "Something's Wrong". I have to support everything from netbooks and older office machines to the latest multicore and the simple facts are 1.- Firefox runs like shit now on AMD, especially on AMD netbooks and single cores. 2.- It sucks the life right out of netbooks thanks to all the CPU spiking, 3.- Sucks RAM like a drunk sucking booze at a free minibar, hell just try leaving it running overnight and write down how much memory it was using when you left and how much it was using when it came back and watch the numbers jump!, 4.-In my own tests I've found it to be pretty much unsuitable for purpose on anything less than a 3GHz P4 with HT and even then its a little iffy, dual cores are the minimum to get some performance across the board!

Its a fricking browser folks, but its getting like that old Emacs joke about "Its an OS that has a half ass editor included" only in this case its a half ass browser. its not like I'm the only one that has noticed it either and I bet if everyone here were to post their horror stories of FF the list would be longer than your arm!

So waste your mod points, stick your fingers in your ears and go "la la la' but that won't change reality which is FF numbers are dropping like a rock FOR A REASON folks. The whole reason i had to find an alternative browser was because I got tired of customers bitching about how damned slow and sucky FF was, with the CPU spiking getting fricking ridiculous not to mention the version numbers spinning like a top and breaking extensions and I was afraid they'd go back to IE.

Frankly I predict if they don't focus on their core business they damned well better hope they can become an OS developer because when the contract is up again they won't have enough users to sell their search engine rights for a dollar!