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Firefox 3.0.10 released

Firefox 3.0.10 released

Posted Apr 29, 2009 7:50 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Firefox 3.0.10 released by jengelh
Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released

I expect that a typical Linux kernel user runs only a small fraction of the code. There are hundreds of devices I don't have on my system, and dozens of filesystems and network protocols I have never used.

By contrast, a typical Firefox user exercises most of the code, unless they visit a very restricted set of sites or have an odd setup such as turning off Javascript. The only big chunk of code they do not run is platform-specific code for other platforms.

So in terms of the codebase that is used in a typical installation, it may be that Firefox is bigger and more complex than Linux.


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