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Early Firefox felt really responsive and it was more functional and safe than IE. What happened? I still use it, but I definitely don't feel the same about it.
Chrome happened. When something even better comes along, you might not be as satisfied with the old solution, especially if it's just trying to play catch-up over the next few years.
Then there's Firefox. It's taken years to get to a point where you aren't swapping from three page loads. It has hardware graphics rendering and built-in video codecs. An entire development environment. And "helpful" features that try to guess what you're thinking and end up using more bandwidth, i/o and cpu than is necessary.
I know, i'm a luddite, i'm old-fashioned, i'm hindering progress. But get off my lawn! I just want a single tool that does something well. What's wrong with just releasing plugins for the features that aren't strictly text and image web content?
History of Mozilla UI: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... History of Mozilla mascot: http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/ Archive of old browsers and original Mcom.com site: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008…
History of Mozilla UI: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... History of Mozilla mascot: http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/ Archive of old browsers and original Mcom.com site: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008…
"This newer strategy...with fewer releases but more features and changes manifesting in each one...has held through to subsequent Firefox releases to date."
History sure changes fast.
History of Mozilla UI: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... History of Mozilla mascot: http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/ Archive of old browsers and original Mcom.com site: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008…
From that overview: "This newer strategy...with fewer releases but more features and changes manifesting in each one...has held through to subsequent Firefox releases to date." History sure changes fast.
History of Mozilla UI: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.andrewturnbull.net/moz... History of Mozilla mascot: http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/ Archive of old browsers and original Mcom.com site: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008…
From that overview: "This newer strategy...with fewer releases but more features and changes manifesting in each one...has held through to subsequent Firefox releases to date." History sure changes fast.
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Firefox is currently 17MB. It's pretty amazing that that size includes (off tge top of my head): JavaScript interpreter/compiler, HTML4 & 5 parser, XML parser, CSS parser, graphics engine, layout engine, WebGL, lots of typographical features, plugin API, extension API, DOM, BOM, developer tools.
It's much less impressive when you consider that Opera offers basically all of that, plus a built-in email client, and built-in BitTorrent support, and a built-in IRC client, and built-in ad blocking, among other features. And the largest Windows installer of the current 12.02 version is merely about 10.5 MB, too.
The vast majority of the world will never need to use any of that.
Built-in ad blocking is about the only useful thing you listed, and Ad-Block and ABP are widely used.
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It's much less impressive when you consider that Opera offers basically all of that, plus a built-in email client, and built-in BitTorrent support, and a built-in IRC client, and built-in ad blocking, among other features. And the largest Windows installer of the current 12.02 version is merely about 10.5 MB, too.
How is bloatware impressive? The vast majority of the world will never need to use any of that. Built-in ad blocking is about the only useful thing you listed, and Ad-Block and ABP are widely used.