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Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox (golang.org)
digitalPhant0m writes: Six years ago today the Go language was released as an open source project. Since then, more than 780 contributors have made over 30,000 commits to the project's 22 repositories. The ecosystem continues to grow, with GitHub reporting more than 90,000 Go repositories. And, offline, we see new Go events and user groups pop up around the world with regularity
And Opensource.com notes that Mozilla Firefox has just hit 11 years of age, too.
Might as well throw this out there too: GStreamer's first release was 16 years ago on Halloween - 0.1.0 "gscreamer".
GStreamer - The only way to stream!
Remember when the #1 selling point of Firefox, though, was that it was lean, mean, and efficient (at least compared to the browser then-called Mozilla...)?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
And what will you install instead, chrome? A browser that will also support WebVR, has multiprocess browsing and a revamped add-on platform?
Honestly, Firefox was dragging behind badly with an unsecure plugin architecture and single process thread that would lock up the browser when it was loading an heavy page.
I'm pretty sure Firefox 4.0 was the point most of us started seriously panicking about the direction of Firefox, which was some years ago. That was the browser that suddenly kept needing gigabytes of memory, had the first Chrome-inspired UI, and the first enforced updates. It's never been the same each.
Eich? I was going to use Firefox regardless of whether Eich stayed or not. It's ironic how many people seemed to feel that it was an outrage that people might stop using Firefox over Eich's poor handling of his scandal, but then themselves felt they should stop using Firefox because Eich resigned.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Weren't Firefox's precursors also open-source? This would make it the (roughly) 17th anniversary for them.
I remember when one of the marketing points of Opera was that it was so lightweight and portable that the entire installer fit on a single 1.44M floppy disk.
Before they started bundling crap like "Hello", and changing the UI every 45 seconds to try and copy Chrome, while ignoring 11 year old bugs.
I feel 3.0 was peak Firefox. I remember the buzz and the huge counts of Downloads on release day. 3.6 was the last reasonable version before the whole project went off the rails.