On stability [LWN.net]

On stability

Posted Sep 13, 2010 16:19 UTC (Mon) by gerv (subscriber, #3376)
In reply to: On stability by roelofs
Parent article: Debian squeezes out Chromium

The evolution of the web platform. In the past fifteen months, Firefox has added at least the following major features:

* Web fonts
* Vast improvements in SVG support
* Major speed improvements for JavaScript (JITs and other magic)
* Out of process plugins, to stop Flash crashing your browser all the time (which required a major internal rearchitecture)
* Profile sync
* Large chunks of HTML5 and CSS3
* Rendering system changes to support mobile and GPU-accelerated graphics

You can't do this with small patches on top of a stable base.

Gerv

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On stability

Posted Sep 13, 2010 18:03 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

They also added support for Cairo 1.10 in trunk last week. This brings a lot of improvements in the longer-term, but is trouble in the short (my build system now needs retweaking).