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+The alpha's you're looking at represent almost two years of development with major performance enhancements.
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+Mozilla recognizes that Firefox is far from perfect, even if the community is unwilling to. Firefox programmers recently put out a call for input from perhaps the most vocal Firefox abusers -- the Mac community.
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+But Perens believes that the bloat isn't just the fault of the browser. "I think the real cause of web bloat and feature creep is the rich content offered on the web these days, which goes so far beyond vanilla HTML in its performance demands."
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+Indeed there are already several projects based on the Gecko engine with the goal for providing a stripped-down browser. Minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> is a browser designed for mobile devices and Galeon <http://galeon.sourceforge.net/> runs on Linux computers, but neither have yet acchieved widespread consumer support.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/adobe_releases_.html "Adobe Releases Tamarin"
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+Peren's assessment is particularly telling given that shortly after the explosion of social networking sites the Firefox team built The Coop, a set of social networking features borrowed from the Firefox-based Flock browser. At the moment the Coop exists as an add-on but Mozilla has reportedly considered including in a future version of Firefox.
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+"There have been many stripped-down browsers using the Mozilla Gecko HTML rendering engine - which is really the key component, and is built to be used in multiple projects. Mozilla provides good instructions on how to build a new browser with Gecko here <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/>. For example, we have Minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> for cell phones, which was funded by Nokia, Galeon <http://galeon.sourceforge.net/> on Linux, and many others. But I don't think any of these have hit the right mark for the non-power-user who just wants to browse the web.
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+Add-ons are not something the casual user seems interested in. Mozilla reports that roughly __% of Firefox users have some sort of add-on installed, which means that for most, the browser itself is the appeal.