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by tired_man 3537 days ago
> > Mozilla was driven into the ground by better competition

> I thought it was Microsoft's anti-competitive strategy? (bundling IE, changing the API's to break netscape, etc.)

I thought it was Mozilla's utter lack of regard for the their userbase.
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jimmywanger 3537 days ago
Microsoft might have been part of it, but check out http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html.

They waited 3 years before a new release. In internet terms, it's like 21 years between any new features.

During that time, IE was (IMO) the best browser objectively, in almost every sense of the word. They didn't change the APIs per se to break Netscape, they started giving features that Netscape didn't offer because users wanted them.

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Mathnerd314 3537 days ago
That came later, after they decided that they preferred politics to market share. (sometime around 2008-09, judging from the TIFF support bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160261#c39)
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tired_man 3537 days ago
TIFF. It might have been handy in certain instances, but IMHO, it was never been a big deal except in the page-layout world. And even then, having an eps was better.

I missed that cluster of madness for firefox, I guess. Had I known that Mozilla would turn out this way, I would never have donated money. My name is on their full-page NYT ad and poster.

I wonder if they'd give me a refund?

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