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DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updatesDiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updatesPosted Jul 7, 2012 3:31 UTC (Sat) by slashdot (guest, #22014)In reply to: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates by HelloWorld Parent article: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates
Maybe they should then follow the Linux model and pull all popular extensions in the Firefox source repository, perhaps along with a testsuite for each one?
After all, Mozilla is a corporation with employees, so they should be able to simply hire maintainers to review and merge patches for the resulting gigantic source tree.
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DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates Posted Jul 7, 2012 17:14 UTC (Sat) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] This won't be enough. It's the unpopular extensions that are important much more than the popular ones. The strength is in (1) the long tail and (2) distributed effort in maintaining that tail.
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