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A browser is hard to fork, and a fork of a browser is hard to maintain. They might be able to get away with not doing this. The reality is that this time, they
by jraph 4y ago
A browser is hard to fork, and a fork of a browser is hard to maintain. They might be able to get away with not doing this.
The reality is that this time, they are taking a good decision, on its own, not because they have to for some reason, and this should be recognized as-is. They took enough bad decisions we can attack, no need to belittle them for this one.
- INTPenis 4y agoI think the assumption is that some browser engineers will also break off if a fork is ever created. Because I agree, a browser fork is hard to maintain. So we plebian users must rely on one or two experienced engineers being on our side.
- DoctorOW 4y agoIs it reasonable to make that assumption? How many ex-Mozilla work on Firefox forks now? How many ex-Google work on Chrome forks? Genuine questions...
- INTPenis 4y agoI can't answer that, I guess what I was trying to say was that if a fork is ever created its chances of success depend on how many, if any, experienced browser engineers join it.
- Bakary 4y agoPeople belittle Firefox and its parent company out of both love and fear because it's one of the few bastions remaining in a sea of botnets and data siphons. And no, le shill lion doesn't count.