It seems like the guys at Mozilla "lost" their direction some time ago. I mean, I remember 2004 when Firefox first came out - I was so excited that I could finally ditch IE (yeah, i know Opera was around for a long time but somehow I never got to like it). Compared to IE, Firefox was blazing fast, light and secure.
Fast forward a few years later... and it seems like the tables have turned. Chrome is so much faster than Firefox that I simply can't look back. And I'm not talking about the damn javascript benchmarks which everyone seems to be posting all over the Internet; the general program and system responsivness is light years ahead. Starting the browser, opening tabs, opening websites, everything is faster on Chrome. Even switching or dragging tabs around is prefectly smooth on Chrome while Firefox has delays. Not to mention the superior interface (which everyone seems to be copying now).
In the meantime Mozilla releases new versions on a slow schedule and sometimes buggy as hell (version 2.0 or 3.0 kept crashing for me). The program's memory issues have become a subject for jokes all over. This is not the Firefox I fell in love with so many years ago.
I think the future looks grim for Mozilla... they are alone on a market surrounded by software giants (Microsoft, Apple, Google) and they lost their biggest advantage (being the rebel, the alternative). I think it's a matter of time until they slowly get "eaten" by the rest.
It's kind of amazing when you consider it; all this work has been done by just one guy. He could turn this into a business, there are lots of chess hobbyists around..
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It seems like the guys at Mozilla "lost" their direction some time ago. I mean, I remember 2004 when Firefox first came out - I was so excited that I could finally ditch IE (yeah, i know Opera was around for a long time but somehow I never got to like it). Compared to IE, Firefox was blazing fast, light and secure. Fast forward a few years later... and it seems like the tables have turned. Chrome is so much faster than Firefox that I simply can't look back. And I'm not talking about the damn javascript benchmarks which everyone seems to be posting all over the Internet; the general program and system responsivness is light years ahead. Starting the browser, opening tabs, opening websites, everything is faster on Chrome. Even switching or dragging tabs around is prefectly smooth on Chrome while Firefox has delays. Not to mention the superior interface (which everyone seems to be copying now). In the meantime Mozilla releases new versions on a slow schedule and sometimes buggy as hell (version 2.0 or 3.0 kept crashing for me). The program's memory issues have become a subject for jokes all over. This is not the Firefox I fell in love with so many years ago. I think the future looks grim for Mozilla... they are alone on a market surrounded by software giants (Microsoft, Apple, Google) and they lost their biggest advantage (being the rebel, the alternative). I think it's a matter of time until they slowly get "eaten" by the rest.
It's kind of amazing when you consider it; all this work has been done by just one guy. He could turn this into a business, there are lots of chess hobbyists around..