Tab previews are in the works for a future release of Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of Firefox you hover your mouse over a non-active tab (i.e. any
My hyperbole also presumes that Gecko continues to be updated, though the browser would get no further updates.
This hyperbolic hypothetical is truly impossible, since Firefox is open-source. It would continue to be maintained by SOMEone.
Six months might be a bit pessimistic. It might start being less reliable within six months, but the pace of WHATWG RFCs has been dwindling gradually since the mid-2000s. Honestly, I think operating system changes would be more likely to render Firefox’s codebase obsolete before web standards do.
Yes, I was speaking hyperbolically.
My hyperbole also presumes that Gecko continues to be updated, though the browser would get no further updates.
This hyperbolic hypothetical is truly impossible, since Firefox is open-source. It would continue to be maintained by SOMEone.
Six months might be a bit pessimistic. It might start being less reliable within six months, but the pace of WHATWG RFCs has been dwindling gradually since the mid-2000s. Honestly, I think operating system changes would be more likely to render Firefox’s codebase obsolete before web standards do.
I get that you were being hyperbolic, I’m honestly not sure why I left my previous comment, you’re absolutely right
If nothing else, you have given me the gift of “hyperbolic hypothetical,” so thank you for that