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I'd argue that their attempted rewrite of Firefox in Rust also caused them to actually fall behind in terms of features and speed, which is reflected in the dim

I'd argue that their attempted rewrite of Firefox in Rust also caused them to actually fall behind in terms of features and speed, which is reflected in the diminishing market share of Firefox. Technologically Rust is an awesome language and a boon to secure software development, I'm just not sure it was such a great idea for Mozilla to put so much energy into this, which could've gone into improving their main product instead.

ikt 6y ago
I'd argue not because I switched from Firefox to Chrome at v1 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398220&page=11&p=10129030#post10129030 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398220&page=11&p=... Chrome was absolutely faster in web rendering than Firefox and more stable and the UX was cleaner, it made Firefox with its slow buggy performance and awful theme's look like myspace to Chromes facebook. I also remember being very frustrated with Firefox on Ubuntu ~10.04 at the time and when Chrome came along it was exactly what I'd been waiting for. Quantum/Servo/Rust/UI refreshes seems like this was Firefox catching up to Chrome v1 and honestly in 2020 it feels like Firefox has finally caught up significantly. It's still not as stable as Chrome but it's getting there, webrender is a massive leap forward in performance: https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/Chalkboard/ https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/Chal... That test is now showing at 6.65 seconds down from 45 seconds without it.