GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation [LWN.net]

GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 5, 2008 19:26 UTC (Wed) by flammon (guest, #807)
Parent article: GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

The recent GNOME WebKit integration buzz has woken up the donations overlord at Mozilla.

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GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 5, 2008 20:57 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

Well, there's also the thing of WebKit being part of new Qt, in Android, 
Symbian, iPhone and OSX...  Besides Firefox, Gecko is used in settop 
boxes, in N800/N810 etc, but I guess Epiphany starting to include WebKit 
was indeed a wakeup call for Mozilla.

GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 6, 2008 5:45 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link]

> but I guess Epiphany starting to include WebKit 
> was indeed a wakeup call for Mozilla.

And so did they choose:

A) Try to make their software start sucking less or

B) Pay GNOME to keep using their crap

Now what company does that tactic remind you of?

GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 6, 2008 10:45 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

From their ongoing development efforts (cf. the firefox 3 betas) and the contents of the press
release, the answer seems to be (A).

HTH, HAND.

Actually they did both A) and B)

Posted Mar 6, 2008 10:48 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I was almost ready to drop Firefox in favor of something WebKit-based but then I've tried Firefox 3 beta 3... and now I'm not so sure. The fact remains: WebKit is still better then Firefox if you don't need XUL but Firefox3 does have XUL and is much better then Firefox 2.

Of course Firefox3 is not yet ready so choice B) look reasonable. If we'll see that Mozilla Foundation will stop doing A) - that's when we should be worried...

Actually they did both A) and B)

Posted Mar 6, 2008 18:00 UTC (Thu) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

I don't really see the advantage of XUL. I mean, firefox3 has a great 
interface, but you could build such an interface based on WebKit as well. 
And as renderingengine, WK is the better one...

GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 6, 2008 10:52 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

What's wrong with

C) All of the above?

(Except B is utterly wrong about Firefox being "crap")

GNOME and Mozilla Foundations announce cooperation

Posted Mar 13, 2008 9:31 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]

>C) All of the above?
>(Except B is utterly wrong about Firefox being "crap")

Well given that:
- a plugin crash can crash FF.
- a freeze in one tab can freeze the whole browser (poor threading because 0.01% of websites
have a child window which communicate with the parent window with Javascript, so *of course*
everything must be in the same thread)

I disagree about your vision of FF.