Article discussing Go, could well be D

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Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> > WebKit is not meant to be fast, it's slower than gecko (at least on 
> > windows).
> >
> 
> Isn't WebKit what Chrome uses? I thought that was supposed to be fast.

I heard they hacked in their js engine which is supposed to be fast. Ever saw googlesyndication.js?

> > Or you can write skin/plugin/extension for FF4 to make your sweet 
> > interface :)
> 
> Yea, but that's the problem with FF. Everything about it sucks 
> out-of-the-box, and it gives you no way to disable most of the suck. So you 
> *have to* cram it full of add-ons just to make the damn thing usable. (At 
> least it actually *has* a good range of addons available...)

That's what's meant by extensibility: if default doesn't suit your preferences, you can customize it. Opera used to follow an opposite approach: mix up all usable stuff so that the user has no need to extend it, but now it supports ff-style extensions.