[muglo] Re: Mozilla go bye-bye
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:40:04 -0500
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:30:48 -0500, emedzon <emedzon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What does this mean? Is The browser going to be out of date?
> Ted.
>
> > Well, "I told you so". Mozilla is defunct:
> >
> > <http://www.osdir.com/Article4532.phtml>
Not entirely. Mozilla will certainly fall behind FireFox in the long
run. The big developers will want to throw their energy and weight
behind FireFox. FF has managed to do what Mozilla never could or will
-- SUCCEED!
> Firefox looks okay for the immediate future ? Although personally,
> I've recently returned to using Safari , which I find comparably faster
> than Firefox? What do others think ?
Mac FireFox is still sub-par compared to Mac Mozilla and Safari. In
many ways it is a shame that Mozilla will cease to be a major project
(yeah, it'll linger, but it won't thrive like it does now... it's
simply a bad design just like Microsoft Excel is an infinitely better
spread sheet than AppleWorks or Microsoft Works... stand alone apps
are by-and-large better than "all-in-one" solutions... just like
all-in-one scanner/printer/copier combos are worse and of lower
quality than their stand-alone counter parts).
Since FireFox exists mostly on Windows and Linux (where it'll have a
large % of the non-MS browser share than on Mac) I guess the
development effort goes into FF and not Mozilla.
This is bad for "us" Mac users since FF and ThunderBird for Mac are
still sub-standard applications compared to their Windows and Linux
versions (I spend a lot of time in Ubuntu Linux nowadays so I'm losing
a bit of my Mac attachment... I still love Mac hardware (can't find
anything better in design out there) but the GUI is starting to irk me
sometimes (most notably speedwise, even on >1 GHz G4s or G5s (that's
what I find stunning... even a G5 feels sluggish) when I try them in
the store).
Eric.
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