> I'd rather see slower development if it was moving in the right direction.
What makes you think it'd happen if full-time employees at Firefox cant do it? We can poop on the leadership over at Mozilla, but there are FTEs getting paid to work on Firefox.
You cant just replace with few people running passion project on weekends, and even get the remote success Firefox has.
Browser is extremely complex. HN is underestimating how much work goes into making a browser.
You can fork the source code, but you cannot fork engineers and paychecks from Google and other interested parties.
You also can't fork the update channel, so you're starting from scratch with 0 market share.
Step 1: Fork Firefox
Step 2: ??
Step 3: Profit
Sometimes HN commenters are so funny.
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> I'd rather see slower development if it was moving in the right direction.
What makes you think it'd happen if full-time employees at Firefox cant do it? We can poop on the leadership over at Mozilla, but there are FTEs getting paid to work on Firefox.
You cant just replace with few people running passion project on weekends, and even get the remote success Firefox has.
Browser is extremely complex. HN is underestimating how much work goes into making a browser.
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