history repeating itself?
history repeating itself?
Posted Mar 5, 2025 19:19 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)Parent article: A look at Firefox forks
The [Firefox] project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt, and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.
Wikipedia
What was once an unofficial fork got brought in-house. Maybe Mozilla will adopt one of the current forks, or maintain both the current release with advertising features and a release without them, built from the same codebase. (IMHO ad features in browsers are a fad now, but the browsers will eventually get over it)
Posted Mar 6, 2025 0:47 UTC (Thu)
by PeeWee (guest, #175777)
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What was once an unofficial fork got brought in-house.
And they seem to be repeating the same mistakes. I cannot help but think about this recent thread. My main takeaway from that discussion is that Mozilla Corp. employs many developers who earn a pretty penny and thus may feel the need to justify their salary, so they come up with new features nobody really asked for, or whose value is rather questionable, at the very least. Nobody brags about, and demands a pay raise for, plain maintenance or, God forbid, consolidation, because that is tantamount to questioning their own place in the workforce.
history repeating itself?
The [Firefox] project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt, and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.
Wikipedia