When the browser wars ended 15 years ago, not much have happened. The innovation has instead moved to userland, which achieve things with crazy hacks and meta/trans-compilation. We have committees writing new "standards" faster then anyone can implement them. But there is no natural selection. What browser engine are you going to switch to if you are unhappy with your current one? That said, most of the hard problems have already been solved, so writing vanilla html/css has been a breeze ever since things settled. And its also very stable.
Yes, but it seems like Firefox is only keeping up, they are playing defensive, while they really ought to attack weakness in Chromium or give users a reason to switch. Right now Chrome is slightly more efficient, slightly better feature coverage, etc.'
One reason why I still use Mobile Opera is because it automatically adjust the text when I zoom in...
A bold move for Mozilla would be to cut down expenses to a 3 year buffer, cut their funding from Google and force themselves to become independent.
95% of Mozilla money comes from Google. Last time I checked Firefox still sends everything you type into the address field to Google. So if you do not trust Google, how can you trust Mozilla!?
> We have committees writing new "standards" faster then anyone can implement them.
This isn't really true; the committees writing the standards are primarily formed of implementers, and the implementers aren't paying anyone to write a standard they aren't going to implement in the near future. That said, the early idea-incubation committees too often end up with just a single implementer involved.
