Comments on: The Demise of Firefox http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/03/20/the-demise-of-firefox/ Programming and Technology Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:40:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A month with Google Chrome | Realm of Zod http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/03/20/the-demise-of-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-400 A month with Google Chrome | Realm of Zod Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:03:17 +0000 http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=37#comment-400 [...] of you may remember my inflammatory article about the demise of firefox, and I thought it would be wise to post a follow up as I am a man of my word and when the situation [...] [...] of you may remember my inflammatory article about the demise of firefox, and I thought it would be wise to post a follow up as I am a man of my word and when the situation [...]

]]> By: Asa Dotzler http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/03/20/the-demise-of-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Asa Dotzler Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:54:24 +0000 http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=37#comment-111 I'd warn against paying too much attention to rumors and hearsay and you're right to be skeptical of it. I'm not going to call you a Google fanboy but I do think you're overly optimistic about Chrome on platforms other than Windows and I think you put too much faith in their promised future of extensions. Both will certainly happen, to some degree, but as you can already see from their comfort shipping a 1.0 product that had neither cross-platform parity (or even non parity) nor extensions, those pieces of the puzzle you consider important are clearly not priorities for Google. - A I’d warn against paying too much attention to rumors and hearsay and you’re right to be skeptical of it.

I’m not going to call you a Google fanboy but I do think you’re overly optimistic about Chrome on platforms other than Windows and I think you put too much faith in their promised future of extensions.

Both will certainly happen, to some degree, but as you can already see from their comfort shipping a 1.0 product that had neither cross-platform parity (or even non parity) nor extensions, those pieces of the puzzle you consider important are clearly not priorities for Google.

- A

]]> By: brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/03/20/the-demise-of-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-110 brandon Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:42:55 +0000 http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=37#comment-110 Well the truth is that Mozilla is going to have to pull some miracles out of their hat in order to pull ahead of the innovations that Google is pumping out. I seriously doubt that Mozilla is going to completely rework the internal guts of Firefox to meet the demands of today's users and address all of the complaints that have plagued it. Maybe you know something we don't and if that's the case and Mozilla surprises us all with Firefox 3.5 that's once again sleek, fast, and efficient I will gladly bow to you. I've heard rumors that the Firefox internals are still deeply rooted in the old Netscape codebase whose age shows almost as bad as that of Trident. I'll concede that is probably nothing more than heresay but I'm inclined to believe it given its single threaded, memory sharing architecture. Additionally, I wouldn't go so far as to call Chromium vaporware considering I have it installed and get regular updates for it. I used it just yesterday to test some javascript heavy sites and it works well enough even if its not a complete replacement yet. I expect once Chrome becomes available on all platforms, we will see extensions become available. And I only sound pessimistic because I am history's pupil and no one stays a hero forever and there will always be a new kid on the block, and today that is Google. Android and Chrome are both part of an obvious strategy by Google to reset the status quo. Call me a google fanboy, but when I see something done right, I call it like I see it. Thanks for the feedback. Well the truth is that Mozilla is going to have to pull some miracles out of their hat in order to pull ahead of the innovations that Google is pumping out. I seriously doubt that Mozilla is going to completely rework the internal guts of Firefox to meet the demands of today’s users and address all of the complaints that have plagued it. Maybe you know something we don’t and if that’s the case and Mozilla surprises us all with Firefox 3.5 that’s once again sleek, fast, and efficient I will gladly bow to you. I’ve heard rumors that the Firefox internals are still deeply rooted in the old Netscape codebase whose age shows almost as bad as that of Trident. I’ll concede that is probably nothing more than heresay but I’m inclined to believe it given its single threaded, memory sharing architecture. Additionally, I wouldn’t go so far as to call Chromium vaporware considering I have it installed and get regular updates for it. I used it just yesterday to test some javascript heavy sites and it works well enough even if its not a complete replacement yet. I expect once Chrome becomes available on all platforms, we will see extensions become available. And I only sound pessimistic because I am history’s pupil and no one stays a hero forever and there will always be a new kid on the block, and today that is Google. Android and Chrome are both part of an obvious strategy by Google to reset the status quo. Call me a google fanboy, but when I see something done right, I call it like I see it. Thanks for the feedback.

]]> By: Asa Dotzler http://blog.realmofzod.com/2009/03/20/the-demise-of-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Asa Dotzler Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:14:46 +0000 http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=37#comment-109 So Chrome, a browser which is not available for your platform (because its creators consider you a second or third class citizen of the web) that has none of the 20+ extensions that you use with Firefox is about to dethrone Firefox? Wow. You're very optimistic about vaporware and very pessimistic about the tool in hand. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side of the road. So Chrome, a browser which is not available for your platform (because its creators consider you a second or third class citizen of the web) that has none of the 20+ extensions that you use with Firefox is about to dethrone Firefox?

Wow. You’re very optimistic about vaporware and very pessimistic about the tool in hand. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side of the road.

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