Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13
by AndrewDucker on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:35AM
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I know there was a big fuss when Firefox moved over to the rapid release model, but it really seems to have energised the developers. We're seeing a lot of improvements in areas that never seemed to get the love before, and I suspect that knowing the users will get their hands on your changes in 6 weeks is responsible for a lot of that.
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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13
by gcp on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:08PM
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We're seeing a lot of improvements in areas that never seemed to get the love before
Mozilla started increasing its paid staff about 1.5 year ago and it almost doubled. Most of those people are now well worked in. It would have been sad if there was no user visible improvement. (Of course, not all new hires went to desktop Firefox with critical projects like B2G starting etc)
Increasing the release schedule coincided pretty well with that in getting the new work out faster, too.
Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13
by FooBarWidget on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:02PM
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Most of the fuss around the rapid release model is emotional. There were a few legit criticisms (e.g. extension compatibility), but they were solvable. 95% of the fuss is just "OMG they'll reach Firefox 400 by the end of the year, how idiotic!!!"