Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research

I think you are looking for an exact quote but the link is to slides of a talk :(

I also agree with the sentiment, but you Architecture Astronaut will no doubt disagree.

You really can't just take a design pattern and apply it blindly across languages. I spend far too much of my time on a C# application where I have to deconstruct anti-patterns and make them more amenable to change.

There are alternative methods that Mozilla could do, like bringing a Mozilla certificate to host the extension in your own site without an extra prompt.

I have no problem with this as long as they use the funding to continue producing open source software. I don't think it would be possible for them to compete with Chrome as a pure open source project with no major funding. Mozilla's role since its founding of providing a viable alternative FOSS browser is just as valuable and appreciated now as it was in the IE days, imho.

>The restrictions (based on security reasons) to install an extension from a site different than mozilla addons. For me this was a prequel of app stores.

For a product aimed primarily at easily-duped non-tech lay people, I have no problem with this either. As long as the addons remain FOSS.

>Lack of respect for extension developers breaking compatibility between versions and not clearly isolating extensions.

As a FF user I can live with this, as long as the breaking changes move the browser forward technically, or get rid of some legacy cruft, or similar. It's definitely not in FF's interest either, as it incentivizes users to try other browsers, so I expect it's on their todo list, just maybe not as high a priority as other issues.

  Performance counter stats for './nbody.gcc_run 50000000' (5 runs):

       6232.525219 task-clock                #    0.999 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.09% )
               533 context-switches          #    0.086 K/sec                    ( +-  0.43% )
                 1 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                    ( +- 66.67% )
               166 page-faults               #    0.027 K/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
    27,385,819,080 cycles                    #    4.394 GHz                      ( +-  0.05% ) [83.31%]
    19,494,722,200 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   71.19% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.07% ) [83.30%]
     6,403,657,640 stalled-cycles-backend    #   23.38% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.21% ) [66.70%]
    31,905,910,193 instructions              #    1.17  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.61  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.01% ) [83.37%]
     1,902,954,908 branches                  #  305.326 M/sec                    ( +-  0.05% ) [83.36%]
            39,925 branch-misses             #    0.00% of all branches          ( +- 31.16% ) [83.34%]

       6.239027874 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.08% )


  Performance counter stats for './nbody_rustc 50000000' (5 runs):

       6970.131625 task-clock                #    0.999 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.07% )
               601 context-switches          #    0.086 K/sec                    ( +-  0.33% )
                 5 CPU-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  7.41% )
             1,024 page-faults               #    0.147 K/sec                    ( +-  0.02% )
    30,587,917,853 cycles                    #    4.388 GHz                      ( +-  0.04% ) [83.31%]
    19,368,464,950 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   63.32% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.06% ) [83.34%]
     7,348,766,082 stalled-cycles-backend    #   24.03% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.84% ) [66.69%]
    36,479,184,126 instructions              #    1.19  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.53  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.01% ) [83.35%]
     2,404,008,283 branches                  #  344.901 M/sec                    ( +-  0.04% ) [83.35%]
            65,846 branch-misses             #    0.00% of all branches          ( +- 11.89% ) [83.33%]

       6.977211938 seconds time elapsed