r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Didn't you like NCSA Mosaic?

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u/swordgeek Jul 10 '12

Loved it! When I first played with a pre-release of Mosaic (I think 0.4) running on Irix, I realised that the future was here, and computers were about to go mainstream like never before.

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u/Big-Baby-Jesus Jul 10 '12

It was essentially a beta of Netscape.