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The fact that they spent years arguing against its necessity rather than working on it certainly didn't help.
by wanderr 11y ago
The fact that they spent years arguing against its necessity rather than working on it certainly didn't help.
- frik 11y agoThere is a lot of old cruft in its web engine "gecko" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM). Many addons are XUL based and have had problems with the multi process mode. In 1-2 years hopefully Servo is ready combined with a simple HTML based UI to do what Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix did with Mozilla Suite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming
- glass- 11y agoAnd yet if you read the comments in this thread there are still people arguing against its necessity.