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Hundreds of developers? It's a large code base, but it doesn't require hundreds of developers working concurrently to keep it up to date. Web standards move fa
by WD-42 2y ago
Hundreds of developers?
It's a large code base, but it doesn't require hundreds of developers working concurrently to keep it up to date. Web standards move fast, but not that fast.
Take a look at Ladybird. There's a browser being built from scratch with a small team (less than 10?)
If Mozilla fired 90% of it's employees and kept the 10% to actually work on Firefox, it could be a great browser.
- uasi 2y agoHave you taken a look at Firefox's bug bug tracker?[1] Keeping up with Web standards is nothing compared to the tremendous amount of work required to maintain a cross-platform web browser. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Core https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
- maleldil 2y ago> Take a look at Ladybird. There's a browser being built from scratch with a small team (less than 10?) Ladybird is so, so far away from being comparable to Firefox. It only supports a fraction of modern websites.