> But maybe it doesn't look as slow from the outside?
Google ships 400 new APIs per year. It readily ships API within a month after it spits out a half-prepared spec and asks other browsers for input.
Even benign changes like CSS headline balancing was sent to TAG three weeks ago, and will ship a month from now.
From the outside this is neck-breaking speed with utter disregard for anything. But when user privacy is concerned? Nah, must spend sweet time to do anything.
