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AP reports on renewed "Browser War"
An anonymous reader writes "CNN and others are reporting an Associated Press story on "the revived browser war" with Mozilla paired against Microsoft. It seems the 1.0 release is creating some waves out there. " Considering most people consider
the war long since over, I can't imagine this mattering much.
norrog@linux:~> cat complaint.troll
.net adverts! Why the FUCK are you letting the
The ADS on $la$hdot and the O$DN ANNOY ME.
Ones that annoyme most,
$hit forge adverts, no one want's to risk developing critcal applications
with you so fuck off!
AnimeFu/Megatokyo adverts! Japanime sucks, so does slashdot!
Microsoft Visual Studio
devil advertise with you. Oh now I remember, open sores have no way to
make money so they ask big companies to support them!
Conclusion. Don't tolerate it! Don't subscribe to $la$hdot. Instead go
and install Junkbuster and say no to shitty adverts! The
ones found here are worser than the pr0n sites!
Mozilla lost.
It may be an achievement for OSS, but it's garbage for everyone else.
Mozilla is slow, large, and buggy at best. It reminded me of the NS 4.7 beta, except for the fact that netscape was the cool thing to use at the time.
The war of the browsers is over and IE won. Not because it's the better browser, but because everything is now written to be IE compatible rather that standards compliant.
Linux is dead.
LU
Its only a matter of time until someone in a shack in some third world Asian country finds a hole in Mozilla, and then using the available source code finds out how best to expolit it and reaks massive havic over the land of Mozilla users. At least with MS Exploder there's no available code to read and use to make your worm just that much better.
When the happens the whole open-source thing will be questioned in the media, MS will jump on that bandwagon, and see ya later Mozilla and watch out Linux.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 6 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Galeon are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Galeon posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Galeon users. Chimera posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Galeon posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Chimera. A recent article put Netscape 6 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 6 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 6 usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Mozilla, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape is going out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
And especially when almost any site work well with IE, and a few have problems with Mozilla. IE has won the browser war, it's a sad fact, but even I am not going to switch just to be politically correct. I use IE under windows as long as it works best, and is still a free download.
than web designers will again have to consider netscape/mozilla when doing pages
No thanks, I don't want to have to write two seperate sets of code because Netscape doesn't want to conform to the standards. Screw AOL users. They should get their heads out of their asses anyhow.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Mozilla is for nerds by nerds isn't it? :)
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
"I can't imagine this mattering much".
How hypocritical to be so in favor of open source but irredeemably dissing Mozilla. Oh wait, compare the kind of work that went into slashcode and the quality of the resulting codebase to the Mozilla project. Maybe Taco's definition of open source doesn't include quality code developed by a professional team using good software engineering practices.