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> Mozilla isn't going to drop the Firefox brand even if they do end up replacing Gecko with Servo Microsoft rebranded IE as Edge to jettison both technical deb
by cpeterso 11y ago
> Mozilla isn't going to drop the Firefox brand even if they do end up replacing Gecko with Servo
Microsoft rebranded IE as Edge to jettison both technical debt (like ActiveX) and IE's bad reputation. Conveniently, IE and Edge both have blue "e" icons so users are not confused. :) I wonder if Mozilla could successfully launch a Servo-based browser product with a new name to distance it from Firefox's historical reputation for memory leaks and broken extensions.
- sanxiyn 11y agoDoesn't Firefox have a reputation for using less memory than other browsers these days?
- icebraining 11y agoI don't think so, the reputation still hasn't matched the reality :)
- oblio 11y agoI've definitely seen a lot of discussions where Chrome is considered a memory hog compared to Firefox. At least in the last 2-3 years.
- zurn 11y agoFirefox has a pretty good reputation among users and web developers, despite risks of hitting bad extensions. Their problem amont end users is more the relative obscurity vs the big 3 commercial browsers. IE on the other hand has been a swear word for years.