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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

• PunchyHamster 8mo ago
  Mozilla did plant the tree 20 years ago, then decided few years after to abandon it
  • glenstein 8mo ago
    They push millions of lines of code every year, thousands of patches and all kinds of measurable performance improvements so not sure what you're talking about.
    • PunchyHamster 8mo ago
      the 2% marketshare. I'm talking about 2% marketshare that they got from being de-facto standard, to 2%
      • glenstein 8mo ago
        At their peak it was like 33% or thereabouts. The claim that they were "abandoned" suggests, well, that the browser was abandoned when it wasn't. It's a mischaracterization. Market share is about some combination of (1) software quality, (2) visibility and (3) distribution lock in. Chrome managed to be arguably better on (1) but it's due to (2) and (3) that it became dominant. If (1) was all that mattered we would all be using the Preso engine version of Opera right now.
        • burnermore 8mo ago
          They literally abandoned the development for their toy projects until v57 (?) Quantum release. People left Firefox to chrome cos pages like google meetup and other things were not working at all. What are you saying?