Re:The history of Mozilla and Firefox
by yuhong on Monday July 18, 2011 @05:08PM
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"You could go one step further and say that without Firefox — without the competition that drove an increase in JavaScript performance and the adherence to standards — we might even be living in a web without Google or Facebook or Twitter."
Huh? Google existed in 2000!
"but back in 2002 there was only one web browser: Internet Explorer. "
Re:The history of Mozilla and Firefox
by bcrescimanno on Monday July 18, 2011 @03:53PM
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Might also check page 2 where it says, "...focus on two of the tools that made up the Mozilla Suite: Firefox and Thunderbird."
Neither Fx nor Tb were part of the app suite--they were both offshoots that, at the time, really violated what the project was aiming for. The story of how Firefox came to be and roguish it was seen within the organization at the time is interesting.
Re:The history of Mozilla and Firefox
by mrseb on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:25PM
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Yea, I actually played with that sentence a few times. I thought about making it clear that Firefox and Thunderbird weren't called Firefox and Thunderbird when they were part of Mozilla Suite... but the codebases are the same, I think. Sometimes you have to know where to draw the line, to keep things clear :)
Re:The history of Mozilla and Firefox
by tingley on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @01:18AM
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Nice addition, although as a marginal Mozilla contributor at the time (and frequent IRC lurker), I remember a few other principals being involved -- notably Ben Goodger and and Matthew "mpt" Thomas, who seemed to me to be Blake Ross's primary co-conspirators. For a while it was just this skunkworks project called "m/b" (for "mozilla/browser", I believe), and there was a lot of implied frustration/drama related to AOL/NS-internal development process (the pinnacle of which was the doomed Netscape 6.)
I would love to read a real oral history of Firefox someday.
Huh? Google existed in 2000!
"but back in 2002 there was only one web browser: Internet Explorer. "
one common web browser
Neither Fx nor Tb were part of the app suite--they were both offshoots that, at the time, really violated what the project was aiming for. The story of how Firefox came to be and roguish it was seen within the organization at the time is interesting.
I would love to read a real oral history of Firefox someday.