Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Mar 2008 20:32 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Asa Dotzler has been there from the beginning. As Mozilla's director of community development, he's had a hand in birthing some of the web's most successful open-source software projects, most notably the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers. Now, with Mozilla getting ready to celebrate its tenth anniversary on Monday and with the June release of Firefox 3 fast approaching, Dotzler agreed to sit down with Wired.com and share how his outsider's eye has helped shape Mozilla's path. He tells us not only why Netscape failed, but why Mozilla's first crack at a browser didn't do much better. He also offers insight into how the Firefox team makes decisions ('We've never been a democracy', he insists) and why he thinks Firefox 3 will improve the health of the web."
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Member since:2005-07-17
The way Firefox 3 does it is terrible. Look at the implementation in Epiphany (which for some reason has a lot of features took years to get in Firefox) - it's much more readable. You can write a bookmark name, url, something from history and everything is converted to easy to read single-line entry. Awesome-bar has a lot of unnecessary noise.
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2006-06-22
I actually like the new behaviour. Sometimes I can't remember the URL but can remember the <title> text so I find it very helpful. But then again I have been using it for a couple of months and gotten used to it now =)