Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome

Post by ksec » Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 7:56 AM UTC

klez wrote: post #45

tiles wrote: post #30

"If Mozilla can’t turn Firefox into a modern browser because of all the legacy code getting in the way, perhaps we need a Phoenix 2.0." That sounds like Servo [1] to me. That would also be a much more forward-thinking approach to Electrolysis than fully separating the old Mozilla codebase. Firefox is also competing very well with Chrome in JavaScript speed. [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo [2] http://arewef…

Direct link to the Servo wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine)

Post by 616c » Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 8:55 AM UTC

AJ007 wrote: post #105

Estragon wrote: post #85

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Even if this were true (and there's no reason to believe that Google Chrome is being used in this way), there's still the open-source Chromium browser.

Which Google has made intentionally hard to find. Could your mom or grandmother figure this one out? http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/layout_test_results/

Post by pja » Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 2:32 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #149

pja wrote: post #145

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Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge that the Mozilla Foundation gets a huge income stream from Google. $300million / year until 2014 according to Wikipedia.

I'm not sure where the $300 million number comes from (yes, I know you said "Wikipedia", but there are lots of pages on Wikipedia, and neither the Mozilla page nor the Firefox page supports anything close to that number, nor does Mozilla's most recent annual report -- in fact, Mozilla's total annual revenue is only around $160 million.) And the whole point of Google paying Mozilla is that that money is less than the…