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		blibble on Feb 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Mozilla Matters > Have you ever considered why Firefox for Desktop appears to evolve in a slower pace than Chrome or Safari? Its because of standards. and here's me thinking it was because Firefox and Gecko consist of 20M lines completely unmaintainable, crufty C++!

bzbarsky on Feb 16, 2013 [–]

It's about 6M lines last I checked, of C++ that's not too bad.

How many lines is WebKit? And how crufty or maintainable? ;)

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