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Others have pointed out that Netscape's rewrite gave us Firefox, so the rewrite was incredibly successful.
by verbify 10y ago
Others have pointed out that Netscape's rewrite gave us Firefox, so the rewrite was incredibly successful.
- fnj 10y agoIf you call Firefox incredibly successful.
- andy_ppp 10y agoAs a charity with hundreds of millions in revenue and employing over 1000 people I'd call Firefox and Mozilla pretty successful.
- fnj 10y agoIt has enjoyed success during its lifetime, but the userbase has looked like an upside-down hockey stick for some years now. I would say that having your userbase drop from a dominant majority of the market to well below 10% of the market is indicative of failure.
- robin_reala 10y agoFirefox was never a dominant majority. It peaked at ~25-30% pre-Chrome (when it was the only major competitor to IE).
- iopq 10y agoFirefox gained users since October 2016