Mozilla is directionless and struggling? Huh? They just came out with Firefox Quantum, which is a huge step forward, and I believe might have taken the web performance crown.
Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by WillPostForFood on Monday November 06, 2017 @05:03PM
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If you step back and look at Mozilla's performance, it looks like they have been struggling.
https://www.w3counter.com/trends
Hopefully they are on the upswing recently because they have found more focus and direction.
Quantum is a great improvement to Firefox. I'm running 57.0b14 ATM (normally I'm quite conservative with anything except Emacs) and quite pleased. The performance improvements are quite noticable. Though I do wish they created a more user-extensible browser, a bit a la Emacs.
The only big ones that are independent are Safari (since Google forked Webkit to create Blink), Firefox, and IE/Edge.
And the impression i have is that Safari is lagging, Mozilla is directionless and struggling to keep Firefox relevant, and MS is, well, MS.
Ever since Opera folded and made their browser a Chromium clone, only Mozilla have been carrying the banner for standard correctness. And even they seem more and more bow to Google's decrees (whole virtually cloning the Chrome look and feel with each Firefox update).