maemo is a cool but stillborn platform

Currently brewing:
- Out of process plugins.
- A serious increase in JavaScript performance by combining their tracing-based approach with a JIT.
- GPU-accelerated compositing and animation of logical layers of the render tree. Aside from a serious performance increase for things like scrolling and video playback (as scaling and colorspace conversion of video layers can be done on the GPU), it makes scrolling synchronized to the vertical refresh and moves animation work off the main thread, so it can stay smooth while the main thread is crunching through application logic. It's using OpenGL right now.
- On Windows, Direct2D support for GPU-accelerated rasterization and subpixel-positioned text. Combined with the above, that means more or less fully GPU-accelerated rendering.
- WebGL support.
- They just wrote a new Ogg Theora decoder that significantly improves performance and behavior (e.g. seeking and no audio stutter when video lags due to insufficient performance).
- Better SVG and SMIL support.
- Various HTML 5 and CSS 3 stuff, of course.

Etc etc etc. Chrome might be nice and all, but counting Mozilla's technology out at this point is premature. They're firing on all cylinders right now, there's a lot of stuff coming down the pipe. And it's not just playing catchup, either; a lot of the above Chrome doesn't have.