On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 11:01:39AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Not to mention their plan to deprecate their extension API, which is the only > thing still separating them from actually being Chrome. It looks like there > could be a race between them naturally driving their market share to zero > before the API-deprecation, or the API-deprecation forcing the issue. >
IMHO they will kick the bucket as soon as google stop pouring money in them. > What we'd really need is a reboot of the project to take it back to its roots, > removing layers and layers of accumulated bloat and "features" no-one wants, > run by dedicated developers who actually listen to their users rather than > doing whatever they think is trendy (mostly just cloning Chrome) and forcing > it on their users. It'd be like Firefox rising anew from the ashes. They > could call it, oh, I dunno, something like "Phoenix". > Back to the roots? According to quote: "Roots are the branches down in the earth. Branches are roots in the air -- Stray Birds". If you want the roots, consider spamming Brendan Eich, he has ideas about "expanding JS", which I won't comment. If you ask me, starting from zero is better. Likely, this will require nontrivial amounts of money. >From experience, older mozilla code contained dereferencing NULL on purpose, which can only compete with certain openssl's construct I don't quite remember well ATM (it was even funnier).
