Should *Mozilla* Fork Firefox?
Apparently, there's an interesting thread over on a site called Quora about the future of Firefox.
It's clear that central to the Firefox vision was “no bloat”, a “stripped-own, stand-alone browers, a refutation of the feature creep that had grounded Netscape.” It's also easy to regard today's Firefox as suffering from “feature creep”, just as Netscape did. In this sense, Ross probably feels that the revolution failed, and that Mozilla must start again. What Ross's complaint comes down to is that Firefox is suffering the inevitable side-effects of its own success.
The good news is that Mozilla has lots of sharp people who are aware of these dangers. I doubt whether any of the Mozilla managers and senior coders are complacent like their counterparts were at Netscape. The very open, public nature of the code and the development process means that lots of people can – and do – flag up problems and offer solutions.
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