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Maybe you experienced a different history of the last decade than I did, but in my history the IE team completely disappeared from 2001 until 2007. Suggesting t
by asadotzler 16y ago
Maybe you experienced a different history of the last decade than I did, but in my history the IE team completely disappeared from 2001 until 2007. Suggesting that the Firefox team has ever been anything like is just silly.
Yes, a year between major releases is kind of a long time today, but it's not the better part of a decade and it's not "disappearing" either.
Given the choice between 1 release per year with (hypothetically) 12 new features or 3 releases per year with 4 new features each, clearly the faster releases are better for the Web and for users. But delivering 12 new features a year in one lump rather than in three lumps is not a "slump" and can not rightly be called "malaise" either.
The "pace" of development has never been slow at Mozilla, only the pace of "releases" and that's what we're fixing here.
- ascendant 16y agoWell, I said they started to. You're right, the Mozilla guys never stopped developing but with Chrome coming out and seemingly running circles around them I definitely felt like they were going the way of the dinosaur. I will readily admit it was more perception than reality.