▲ 1496 ▼ Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org) submitted 3 years ago by fattyfoods@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.ml 287 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 19 points 3 years ago (1 child) Mozilla is the name of the Open Source version of Netscape Navigator. It is the pre-cursor to Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Banzai51@midwest.social 18 points 3 years ago (2 children) Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone's hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven't stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) There was the Firefox mobile OS but apparently that didn't pan out too well it seems. I remember vaguely hearing about it long ago, but not by much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] delta@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day! permalink fedilink source parent [–] pungunner@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean didn't they achieve that? Today a lot of things are web based. Firefox is a powerful browser. Especially on Android. So if you want you can have your OS in a browser thingy... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 3 years ago Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 18 points 3 years ago (2 children) Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone's hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven't stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) There was the Firefox mobile OS but apparently that didn't pan out too well it seems. I remember vaguely hearing about it long ago, but not by much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] delta@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day! permalink fedilink source parent [–] pungunner@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean didn't they achieve that? Today a lot of things are web based. Firefox is a powerful browser. Especially on Android. So if you want you can have your OS in a browser thingy... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 3 years ago Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 15 points 3 years ago (1 child) There was the Firefox mobile OS but apparently that didn't pan out too well it seems. I remember vaguely hearing about it long ago, but not by much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] delta@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] delta@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pungunner@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean didn't they achieve that? Today a lot of things are web based. Firefox is a powerful browser. Especially on Android. So if you want you can have your OS in a browser thingy... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 3 years ago Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 3 years ago Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals. permalink fedilink source parent