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At this speed Ladybird might be the browser to use in a couple years, even though I find their decision to use a memory unsafe language for their core tech fool
by Voultapher 1y ago
At this speed Ladybird might be the browser to use in a couple years, even though I find their decision to use a memory unsafe language for their core tech foolish in the year 2025.
- beng-nl 1y agoI remember the original reasoning for creating Firefox (first Phoenix) was to create a more lightweight and faster version of the Mozilla browser, which initially was true.
- dydkgbufxuf 1y agoa big part of making it lightweight wasn't stripping away browser bits, but stripping away non-browser bits. mail, newsgroups, irc. mozilla (the suite) was a lot more than a browser.
- zveyaeyv3sfye 1y agoftp support wasn't dropped from firefox until 2021.
- tripletpeaks 1y agoThe browser bit was also much, much snappier than anything else in common use, except maybe Opera. Including the Mozilla browser. Performance took a giant hit some time in the 1.x series and never recovered, but before that, it was remarkably lightweight and snappy, so much so that normal people would notice.