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For a history tree, something like FromWhereToWhere¹ and Session History Tree²?

A roadmap like this?: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Roadmap Curious why you want one though?

For an automation API, would the RemoteDebug APIs³ work, or perhaps the command-line⁴ API for Firefox? See node-firefox⁵ for an example of using the RemoteDebug API to automate some functions in Firefox.

What makes you perceive the V8 team as more committed than other teams?

You can use your GitHub login to sign in to Mozilla's Bugzilla⁶, is that not enough of an integration for you?

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fromwheretowh...

2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/session-histo...

3: https://kenneth.io/blog/2015/03/12/remotedebug-one-year-late...

4: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...

5: https://github.com/mozilla/node-firefox

6: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

I watched a couple of video presentations V8 did about optimization. It was really coherent. And their skills were really advanced. Also, visceral experience of the speed and stability of Chrome.

Also visceral experience deving Chrome apps and extensions ( man, I love their clear APIs ) versus doing the same in Moz with XUL ( omg, die ).

Browsers are as much about branding as anything, and I'm never going to come to the Mozilla camp. I don't believe a browser works to be a political cause, nor do I believe Mozilla is anything like the narrative they have about it. I mean what the hell is the committee of the Mozilla foundation doing? Wasting time with meetings about the grandiose purpose as a "movement", instead of making a better browser.

They pretend they're so "righteous" and yet all that pedantic dogmatic nitpicking and differentiating themselves is actually costing a lot of efficiency, which doesn't work for people who browse or for people who code.

Aside from that, I like the way Chrome does JS, and I don't like the way Moz does. Custom Elements, c'mon!

The masses have voted anyway. Chrome FTW.

Your answer was clear, it just seems we're on different sides of the browser divide. I wonder why there's so much loyalty? The browser is such an important piece of software.

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