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Mozilla Project Turns 5
GreyWolf3000 writes "As this notice in tinderbox shows, Mozilla turns five years old today. A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use. The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4. Can't wait to see what's in store next!" Read on for another odometer reading -- Mozilla's 200,000th bug report, perhaps just as auspicious a landmark.
zzxc writes "The 200,000th bug has been filed in Mozilla's bugzilla, MozillaZine reports. It was filed at 5:11pm EDT. (21:11GMT) The bug, which is already 'verified invalid,' is 'MailNews crashes after extremely long 'joke of the day' html spam mail.' This comes on the 5 year anniversery of the release of Netscape's source code, also reported by MozillaZine. Bug 100000 was opened on 9/16/01 after three years of development, while bug 200000 comes in less than 19 months from the previous milestone."
I wish Mozilla well, but Opera 7 is an upgrade from any browser. ...and IE is the "cheap seats" of surfing.
Uh, and how long did - or will - it take Microsoft to release a descent operating system?
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Sorry, but very few "normal" people use Mozilla. It's the geek world (including windoze geeks) at this point...
And it still is slow.
A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use.
This is exactly correct. It's a great testament. Unfortunatly it's not one in favor of Mozilla, but in favor of the "myth".
This is my own view of the Mozilla project, and lord help my karma. I feel the Mozilla has been a complete failure. Lets go back six years ago. The year was 1997 and I was interning in a Marketing department (hahhaha) and updating the company website. The only thing we used was Netscape. Netscape had 80% of the market. Six years latter Netscape/Mozilla is pushing what 10% to 15%? Netscape when it open sourced Mozilla gave the Linux community and finally yielded a very nice browser, however, at best Linux users (not servers) make up 5% 15%, you can't argue with that. If better how about 70% ---> 25% still awful. Happy Birthday Mozilla, sorry nobody but a few showed up this year maybe you will make some new friends next year huh? Maybe AOL will finally incorporate you huh? Oh, no, you don't think so...well your still pretty special. Oh, you render pages just the same as IE, but more "standards-based." Oh that's great, that's what makes you different. Oh, people don't care for different? Well, sorry, look at the time, gotta go, Happy Birthday.