Re:Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
by Rijek33 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:31AM
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Less ideology more technology
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Re:Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years
by dralley on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:41AM
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Mozilla / Firefox isn't lacking in new technology. Firefox has made far more aggressive under-the-hood improvements than Chrome over the past 5 years.
Rust, WebRender, Stylo, Pathfinder, wgpu, Dav1d, asm.js (which resulted in WebAssembly) etc.
And they helped bootstrap a lot of efforts that benefited everyone massively. Take the list above and add: LetsEncrypt, Cranelift, AV1, Opus, WebGPU, Wasmtime
Plus tooling like the reverse debugger (https://rr-project.org/) and sccache and Bors