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Posted Apr 28, 2009 15:27 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Firefox 3.0.10 released by sbergman27
Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released

If I remember correctly, they ended up throwing out what they inherited
and rewriting it.

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Posted Apr 28, 2009 15:34 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (2 responses)

Which may have been a bad idea to begin with.

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Posted Apr 28, 2009 22:14 UTC (Tue) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] (1 responses)

1) Joel is a tool.

Netscape was losing marketshare like crazy when the code was released. It had little to do with the long release time for Mozilla 1.0. Also, the code that Netscape released was unbuildable. They basically ripped out anything that had a copyright question on it so all you got an incoherent blob of C code that nobody understood. So the long release time had was mostly a result of trying to figure out what they had and how they'd go about turning it into a functioning computer program.

2) I've poked around in the Mozilla codebase and there is a TON of "mcom" stuff in there. So if there was a serious effort to rewrite it (I don't think there was) they sure did leave a lot of truly ancient code.

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Posted Apr 29, 2009 7:59 UTC (Wed) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]

If one has a cogent argument, then ad hominems detract from, rather than adding to, what one says.