I am responding specifically to the claim that Mozilla is short on resources because Google has a thousand people working on Chrome.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by summerlight on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:57PM
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Google and Mozilla are competing in the browser market so it's pretty reasonable to compare their investments. I don't understand your reasoning here.
My reasoning is that Google's investment is massive and just because they're throwing money and people at a problem doesn't make it necessary for everyone else to do so as well.
True, but when you say:
>Other browsers do just fine with significantly fewer engineers
It implies that you have any examples.
Safari.
Fair point :)
Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by celticmusic on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:47PM
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I'm pretty sure Brave is FF.
I'm more than pretty sure it isn't.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by celticmusic on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:40AM
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oh you're right, not sure where I got the impression it was FF.
Opera's long gone, now it's a chromium fork. Internet Explorer is gone, now MS uses a chromium fork. The hype new browsers like Brave and Vivaldi are just chromium under the hood.
It's like the difference between making a Linux distro and maintaining a full OS.