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Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy (open-web-advocacy.org)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that no matter how ineffective you believe Mozilla to be, it's simply fucking expensive to develop a modern web browser.

According to openhub.net, Chromium has 35 million lines of code, Firefox 32 million, the WebKit engine has 29 million. Compare that to the Linux kernel which has 36 million lines of code.

The Servo engine has 7 million and is not usable.

Ladybird has 757,140 lines of code. There's just no way that they don't still need to develop manifold as much code as what they currently have, to support the features we expect from modern browsers. And they will need more money for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I guess we'll see how it all pans out.