Why Firefox Deserves Its Sad Decline

Post by ComodoHacker » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 9:38 AM UTC

_Algernon_ wrote: post #7

lemoncookiechip wrote: post #4

These days FF is just as fast and lighter than most Chromium browsers. With a better curated add-on store (my god google store sucks), a clean UI (which they'll hopefully stop messing around with), and more importantly, it just works for day to day use, and is customizable enough for most people's needs. While Mozilla have themselves to blame for a lot of the decline. A big part of it is Google's dominance over the w…

Still waiting for the apis to reimplement xul addons, which were promised at least half a decade ago...

Post by jinushaun » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

stevenjgarner wrote: post #33

ehsankia wrote: post #17

I can't tell if I'm having a brain fart Sunday morning or this is just generally a very poorly written article. Can someone give a summary? I read half of it and I still don't see a single "point" being made. The closest it got making a point is: > It seemed to be this software that tried to keep up with the pace of Google Chrome more than a software that actually had its own ideas. That sentence answers itself. Obvi…

And not altogether accurate: > It all started with an app called Netscape Navigator ... believed to be the very first web browser ever Netscape Navigator was at least the 3rd web browser. The first web browser was Nexus by Tim Berners-Lee, renamed from the WorldWideWeb which was too easily confused with the distributed hypertext system known as the World Wide Web. [1] The second web browser was Mosaic (originally xmo…