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August 9, 2011 06:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0d4NRDRBHwY/Mozillas-Nightingale-Why-Firefox-Still-Matters
Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla could be heading into an open confrontation with its rivals Google, Apple and Microsoft as browsers evolve into platforms. Mozilla's director of Firefox engineering John Nightingale gave some insight on the past, present, and future of Mozilla and outlined why Firefox still matters. While Mozilla is accused of copying features from other browsers, the company says the opposite is the case. Nightingale says that a future Firefox will give a user much more control over what he does on the Internet and that Mozilla plans on competing with the ideal of an open web against siloed environments."Chrome may have a nice interface and be a bit faster than Firefox's rendering engine, but if Firefox failed as a project I'd miss its Emacs-like extensibility (something all other browsers lack). 
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