How can Firefox compete as a browser when it does not have a huge company behind it like IE (Mircosoft) or Chrome (Google)? How has it kept apace for years? A coworker explained that Mozilla is a non-profit which is kept alive by donations. Google gives heavily as Firefox defaults to google.com for its home page. There may eventually be ads in Firefox too. I pulled away from it myself in 2013 when I realized I could do everything I used to do in Firebug (and more) in Google Chrome's Developer Tools. JavaScript, developed by Brendan Eich at Sun Microsystems is being formally versioned and kept by Mozilla. The JavaScript that exists outside of Firefox and Mozilla in other browsers is technically just ECMAScript, a scripting language standard (Ecma International's ECMA-262 spec), of which what Mozilla calls its version is JavaScript and of which what Microsoft calls its version is JScript. (You've seen that silliness in Visual Studio, correct?) Adobe's ActionScript for Flash is of this specification too.
Is this burning an eternal flame?
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