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Honestly, the real branding risk is Mozilla's brand being tarnished by firing engineering talent, bundling Pocket, adding opt-out telemetry, etc. I'll take the
by fredoliveira 5y ago
Honestly, the real branding risk is Mozilla's brand being tarnished by firing engineering talent, bundling Pocket, adding opt-out telemetry, etc. I'll take the branding risk that saves a beloved browser and company, over the branding risk that destroys both.
- b112 5y agoI honestly think the core dev work on Firefox could be done by 6 devs. I get an impression that half their devs are doing UI tweaks, which could be left alone for a decade without any issues. The rest, outside of core, seem to write code as you mention. Product additions which most always give zero real value, no income, and even detract from the brand.
- dralley 5y agoThis might be a new low point for HN discourse regarding Firefox. Wow. No, you can't maintain an entire modern browser (25 million lines of code) with 6 people. You probably can't even maintain a complete multi-architecture, JIT-enabled Javascript engine with 6 people. Or GPU-accelerated rendering that works across thousands of hardware / software combinations. Much less that plus all the other things a browser has to do.
- lmm 5y agoKonqueror was a better browser than Firefox maintained by a much smaller team for many years.