By 2010 the world was moving towards having a browser fill out the forms, frequently used passwords, bookmark synchronization, modern security with threading, etc. But it ignored it's users and it's core competency as a lean mean and detailed browser. If you use the excellent Firebug add-on for Firefox you can very easily download YouTube videos without resorting to websites like Keepvid or add-ons like Fast Video. True Firefox was more standard compliant and added more things quicker and that I agree.
Wait so IE was stalled and ignored only? Hmm. Yeah I saw the ads for Chrome too, but I wouldn't have switched unless it actually sucked less. They lost to Chrome on merit and the sooner they get their head out of their ass and stop blaming other things the better. In Firefox it all came crumbling down and you had to kill it completely. Close a Chrome tab and the resources get reclaimed.
IMHO because they took way, way, way too long to do multi-process. If you need legacy extensions, use Firefox ESR' than to say 'as of Firefox 57, you can flip a switch to get your legacy extensions back, but they will break at random over the next few releases until they all break'. Nobody at Mozilla wanted to lose users and few wanted a for-profit company to replace them but they lost anyway. And because of this gradual loss of APIs, its overall nicer to users to say 'as of Firefox 57, you get the new, faster, Rust code, but all legacy extensions break. Firefox won because they pretty much got a walkover and everyone except Microsoft wanted it to win.
#Download firebug for firefox 57 software#
Any piece of software it can happen too as we all remember the days of 90% marketshare of IE 6 too which started to wane in just a few years to Firefox previously.Ī major difference: Internet Explorer was intentionally ignored and crippled by Microsoft to stall the development of web apps in favor of native apps. Remember Firefox was growing almost unstoppable in 2010 and within 2 years started declining FAST.