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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.
Half of a decade.
A software company that took this long to do something would have been long dead by now.
That's only 109 bugs a day! Just goes to show you open source software IS less buggy than commercial!
And all they have to show for it is that bloated pile of dogshit for a browser?
Oh well, I guess linux is what, 14? And it's still a monolithic kernel that needs to be rewritten for every new hardware advance.
The kitchen sink that is now also included in Mozilla. Story here.
My 2nd part of this article shows up as rejected, even though it was obviously used.
Also, here's a link to the 200,000th bug... it should work from developers.slashdot.org.
But mozilla just sucks for real browsing!
I use Opera for Win32 and konqueror for X/KDE. Galeon used to be great but it unfortunatley sunk.
-1, flamebait.
0.6 is meant to be released RSN, they're going to announce the new name shortly, in fact.
Just have some patience, and hopefully it'll be worth it!
This project has proven several things about large scale open source projects:
- Open source doesnt necessarily mean "instant development". It took over a year before anything useful came of the project.
- Just because you release something as open source, doesnt mean that thousands will flock and provide free development. Though thousands did flock, as soon as they saw that the code wasnt nearly usable, they gave up immediately. But, now that there is a small core of developers working on it, it is a useful product.
- Now that it has made some progress, it is more difficult for a closed-source company to compete with it. It exists, and will be difficult to eliminate... There is no company to go out of business to cause Mozilla to disappear.
Uh, and how long did - or will - it take Microsoft to release a descent operating system?
giel.y contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts
It was about then I started to build it! :)
Five years.
How about releasing an IE-killer sometime?
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Sorry, but very few "normal" people use Mozilla. It's the geek world (including windoze geeks) at this point...
And it still is slow.
"...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..."
Not wanting to rain on their parade, as I agree that Mozilla is a great project, but isn't the only reason they have succeeded building a "large scale project" because of the significant backing of one company (Netscape/AOL)? While the community certainly had a very significant contribution, I think we might be giving it a little more credit than it is due.
Read reviews of shopping cart software
I'd much rather use Phoenix. I mean, really, what serious chatter uses an in-browser IRC client?
.6 milestone.
Moz may be good for the public, but I'm glad that I can get the same Gecko quality in a lite-sized package.
Now if only they'd release a
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
Ohmigod, where the hell has my life gone?!?!?!?!?!? I'm still even using the same freaking monitor!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
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.
Because it only takes 4 years to come up with a quasi-working release, whereas a company could do it in 1 or less? Yeah, great testament.
Pretty impressive for just a browser don't you say?
I wonder if any Gnu/Hurd code is in there?
http://saveie6.com/
It takes about 5 years to load for me in Windows.
outside of: "Tabbed browsing r0}{!!!"
I managed to post anonymously. Suck it taco!
Lets see who have I converted...
;-). I did turn a few people online to Phoenix and Mozilla with some luck though. I guess it's easier to convert those you personally know... so go celebrate 5 years and convert some more people over!
My Dad. Hated popups. Instead of giving him a popup blocker for IE I just installed Mozilla for him and switched his Outlook to Mozilla Mail/News. It did a fine job of importing his contact list. He got nimda through an email which infected his machine when he was using Outlook, so I explained to him that with MozMail he'd be ok. After several months use he loves it. No more bad popups for him while browsing, and email has been just fine.
That's my only personal success story, maybe if I got out more often
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What kind of a cake would a computer program want? Strawberry flavor?
The fact is, I needed a browser and email client that is *more* than spartan to replace what I was using, and for mail that was an OS/2 program. With all that Mozilla Mail has, the OS/2 program still has a feature or two I'd like to see added to Mozilla.
But the bigger thing is that for Microsoft to be displaced to any degree, the software that does it *has* to be blessed with good features. I has to be more than spartan. And like IE, which really isn't free, Mozilla not only gives the impression of free, but *is* free. And 'free' is also required for sucess.
I keep hoping the bugs will be fixed in the next release, but so far no joy. The biggest feature I'd like to see is stability. Type ahead find is a really cool feature, but I'd trade it in a minute if the damn program didn't crash every couple days.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State basketball fans overturned four cars, tipped vending machines and set fires in trash bins after the Spartans lost in the NCAA Tournament.
Officers in riot gear dispersed the crowd using tear gas. Eight people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, six of them Michigan State students. The remaining two arrested claimed they were "editors" for the popular Slashdot web site based in Holland, Michigan.
The damage occurred between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Sunday near the university's administration building, where about 2,000 people had gathered.
They had tied up traffic earlier in the evening on Grand River Avenue, which divides the campus and downtown, said Lt. Kevin Daley of the East Lansing Police Department.
The violence followed Michigan State's 85-76 loss to Texas on Sunday in the South Regional final in San Antonio.
University officials said they would discipline the students who were arrested. "This is just outrageous," Michigan State president Peter McPherson told The State News by phone Sunday night from Texas. "I was just truly disheartened."
Brad Dizik, a freshman from Farmington Hills, said the large number of police officers encouraged students to misbehave.
"They entice us to go even more crazy," Dizik said. "I'm just standing here watching people."
After the Spartans lost to Duke in the 1999 Final Four, 132 people, including 71 Michigan State students, were arrested. Damages to the city and campus totaled more than $250,000.
AP NEWS The Associated Press News Service
I remember back then when Netscape was a powerful company and had more users then MSIE. Those were the days...
5 years and they haven't even reached 1.4? In 5 years Microsoft went from 3.0 to 95. Pick up the pace, people.
He must have invented mozilla to celebrate.
Mozilla's successes have almost all been side effects. An open bug database is one of the most revolutionary development practices that I have ever seen. Because of Bugzilla, Mozilla has far more useful features than it otherwise would have. If users hadn't been able to get through to developers I doubt that Mozilla would have popup and image blocking.
Mozilla's release schedule with nightly builds has also been a huge sucess. Mozilla has more people testing very recent versions than any other peice of software I know. Mozilla is now the most stable browser I have ever used, and I don't doubt that the nightly builds (and some talented developers) are the reason.
Hopefully now that Mozilla is very popular it will attract enough outside developers so that Netscape's original dream of no cost development to win the browser war. There are still some hurdles for developers though. Mozilla is a complicated project with a significant learning curve. It relies on some specific technologies such as XUL and XCOM which don't yet have large numbers of developers.
There is no kitchen sink in Mozilla and there will not be in the foreseeable future. Read the bug.
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".
About as funny as jokes about Clinton's infidelity, or cigars, or blue dresses.
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
By the time Slashdot got around to posting the kitchen sink article I submitted, it was already rejected by drivers...
I've loved Mozilla since I first used it 2 years ago.
However, with 1.3, I've found one problem. It seems that the "Open Unrequested Windows" option for javascript (used to block popups) is missing now. I haven't been able to find it on new installations to turn it off.
If anyone knows where it moved to (or if I'm just hallucinating), please let me know.
Yeah.. rock on..
The following message should be appearing in the Mozilla newsgroups any time now:
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A few minutes ago, at 13:11 PST on 2003-03-31, the 200,000th bug was filed in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200
Rather fittingly, it was filed by Chris Hofmann, head honcho of Netscape's embedding team and staunch Mozilla supporter, and is titled "joke of the day spam mail crash". (Note: please don't mess with the bug.)
Consulting my records, I see that the closest guess to the actual date and time was made by:
1st: 2003-04-01 00:00:01 bradangelcyk@hotmail.com (10 hrs, 50 mins)
a mere 10 hours and 50 minutes out. Congratulations to him; he wins a Mozilla 1.0 CD if he sends me his address.
Runners-up:
2nd: 2003-04-02 10:15:36 coch@myrealbox.com (45 hrs, 05 mins)
3rd: 2003-04-02 16:12:44 crisscott@netzero.net (51 hrs, 02 mins)
coch@myrealbox.com wins the I-have-a-Bugzilla-account-and-so-am-not-a-random-
Not every entry had an equal chance of winning the prize. Nine people submitted dates which were before the contest started (clue: this year is 2003, chaps, not 2002), and several people thought we were going to file 20,000 bugs in a matter of about a week. One person thought that he'd get away from the crowd by guessing a date in the 13th month of 2003 (what does he know that we don't?), and the furthest out two guesses had us still struggling towards the mark this time next year.
Thanks to all who took part
Gerv
1) don't throw out the old code and start again.
-if they had built on the old Netscape code things would have proceeded faster. an open source project needs at least something to build on, or tear apart.
2) don't expand the scope of the project before you have something that works.
-using the browser to also do the interface instead of using system widgets. who's idea was that?
i like mozilla. i used it for over 2 years before Safari came along.
Success? Have you actually used that thing? Pages take 2x to load as IE.
Computing power doubles every 18 months? Is that the correct quote by the Intel dude?
Thanks to the increasing computing power, and the 4 GB memory chips coming out, we'll be able to continue using Mozilla for a while.
I was worried about nothing. Phewww!
The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4.
While a minor mistake, the Mozilla is in feature freeze for the 1.4 BETA release, it's already in "alpha".
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Get to know a dirty old man. When your wife is out let him come in and fumble through her panties drawer, then select a pair, making sure it's a pair of her black nylon ones. Then watch him as he wanks into them making sure he comes into the gusset. Let him go on his way and dry off the panties, putting them back in the drawer. When she wears them, my cock gets so hard, it's better than Viagra.
Laundry room
I steal panties from the complex's laundry room. I usually pretend to do a load of laundry and sit there and watch the girl load the washer. As soon as she leaves, I open up the machine (hopefully before they get wet) and grab the first pair I can find. I usually return to my room, and jack off sucking the crotch of all her juices... then cum on the crotch. Sometimes I'll return them right back into the machine... this gets tricky, but it adds to the fun. Good luck... always bring a laundry bag in with you just in case.
After a good run
My sister goes running every morning. When she gets done she goes and takes a shower and she always leaves her dirty clothes on the floor. I go in after her and get naked. I pick up her stinky socks and put them on my face while breathing in deeply. The smell gags me but it always makes my dick so hard. With the sock still over my nose I pick up her dirty panties and lick the brown spot where they rode up her ass. It always gets me off.
Red panties
Red bloody panties are best. I find them in a friend's house, laundry basket, etc.. Two pairs work best, one on my face and the other wrapped around my cock. Guaranteed to make a man cum--hard.
Found treasures
I go into the ladies room at the place I work every day at least twice and check the baskets for dirty panties, used pads, and panty liners. When I get home and I sniff them, lick them, and rub my dick while laying on my stomach with a pile of old panties I stole until I come. Sometimes I buy tampons and insert them into my ass while masturbating.
Sister's thong
I like to take my sister's thongs and wear them around with nothing else except my jeans. When I first start looking for the thong I get a huge hard on and when I put on the thong I like the feel of it going up my ass. I wear them for about an hour or so until my dick isn't hard any more then I start to play around with it again feeling the silk on my cock. Then I go to my room and whack off. it feels great. After that, I go back to my sister's room and put them right back where they were. She doesn't know to this day.
Mom's drawer
I like to masturbate by first stealing a pair of panties from my mom's drawer. A nice silky pair too. Then I like to put the panties on with nothing else on except for a bra that I also stole and a black teddy and a pair of pantyhose. Once I have all that on I lie flat on my stomach and make my fist into a ball and press it against my hard cock. As I'm doing that I take a candy cane and push it into my ass really hard, then I pull it out and lick all the shit off. Once I blow my load in the panties I take them off and lick the warm hot cum off while rubbing some on my face.
Stained panties
Take a pair of you sisters of mothers underwear and get a dildo and stick the dildo up your ass and then lick the panties (but make sure the are used either stained with blood or something else) and then suck them as you whack off. It always works for me.
I lick it all up
I like to lay a pair of dirty wet panties on the carpet, the dirty side of the crotch facing up, then I lay down with the crotch just wide enough for my erect cock and rub up and down until I ejaculate. Then I lick it all up.
It tastes great!
When I jack off, I like to have a pair of my sister's panties that she already wore to smell and lick. It taste great!! I also like to get a pair of her leather sandals and hump them. I find it very erotic to lick my feet and suck my toes while i jack
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"Microsoft made history today, when the total number of bug reports for the various versions of the Windows shell and operating system eclipsed the total population of the planet..."
One thing I hate.. but I can't all it a bug is that when I open a link in a new window or tab and it fails to connect, the browser shows a stupid dialog box and the URL of that page is about:blank.
This way I can't refresh because I lost the URL.
Sometimes I open several tabs and I need to know which links correspond to the failed windows so that I can reopen.
I think IE tries to connect twice before failing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
then came Phoenix. Much smaller, I think somewhat faster and it works with sites that mozilla (for whatever reason, I don't know) wouldn't work with - First USA online was my personal pet peeve.
Just have some patience, and hopefully it'll be worth it!
I think .05 is already worth it. I haven't really run into many issues personally. What's new in 0.6?
Posted using Phoenix 0.5 / Linux (RH 7.3)
back to work...
Computer Science is Applied Philosophy
I don't know about you guys, but for me and my OS X Box, Mozilla is #1. Safari is too buggy and doesn't support squat, Chimera is also too buggy, Opera is a joke, and IE is even worse. Try the nightly's of Mozilla, at least for me they are fast, bug free, and support virtually everything.
I don't know what you guys are talking about, cause other than it's laughable email-client, Mozilla is an IE killer.
Best. Webhost. Ever. Dreamhost.
I love how Netscape, since they own the rights to the Mozilla code, uses it directly for their browser... except like a year after Mozilla implements it. They're like the older, slower brother.
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
" 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."
It took nearly 5 years to get to version 1. At that rate, a few monkeys accessorized with keyboards could have accomplished that.
Don't get me wrong, Mozilla's a wonderful tool for the interent. I'm glad to see IE getting a run for its money. I just don't feel that any myths were shattered here.
1.) It took aaaaaaaaages.
2.) For the most part, the hard work was done and the tough decisions were made. Mozilla wasn't exactly paving the way for the internet as we see it today.
3.) It was necessary. Linux needed a AAA browser. If a good browser for Linux wasn't in demand, how far would it have gone?
I guess what I'm saying is that it's a logical evolution, not necessarily a challenge for the community. Get the community to put together an ambitious game, then we'll shatter a few myths.
I was going to say something really inspirational and uplifting here but my darn browser crashed and I lost my train of thought. Trust me...it was profound.
:-)
Anyway, kudos to the Mozilla team. Long live Mozilla! Cross platform browsers rock!
Hey...I know this is probably a bad venue for a bug report but the new Junk mail filtering doesn't seem to work if you're using movemail. Can you guys take a look at this please
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i think mozilla while a great engine in geko dropped the ball.. the fact that apple chose khtml over geko is really something they shoudl think about. The mozilla team should have focused on getting something that *works well* out then adding features and not the other way around. oh yeah and the red star communst logo is really sad.
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The war on terror is a war for peace
At my previous job at a Fortune-100 company, the proprietary bug database we used kept track of the Bug ID with an unsigned 16-bit number.
Yep, to the surprise and dismay of many, we overflowed at bug# 65537
Computer Science is Applied Philosopy...
I couldn't agree more. As a software engineer with ~15 years experience... and a BA in Philosophy.
Indeed, I worked my way through school as a programmer and chose philosophy on purpose because I found that's where the logic courses were.
(I also took a lot of physics and math which no doubt helps, but the degree is philosophy) I feel the study of various logical abstractions helped widen my perspective. Not to mention you are trained to diagram any set of concept/relationships, which is also quite useful. My diagrams have consistent grammer, and I'm sure this is because I was trained how to create a legend that maps directly to real concepts (e.g. an arrow means something, and is only used for truly identical relationships. Of course, the arrow might mean different things in different diagrams, but within a given diagram: consistency). I'm not sure all Philosophy programs are so rigerous about logic... but it is the one thing, the only thing, that philosophers have any agreement over.
-pyrrho
It's awesome we're even still talking about Mozilla considering the doom and gloom that was spewed because it didn't result in an instant competitor to IE.
Mozilla isn't perfect, but we're all better off living in world with a valid browser alternative.
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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.
I'd just like to say thank you.
What makes you think it ever meant that? GNU C and GNU C++ took years to catch up with the respective standards. Emacs 19 took so long to come out that it was a standing joke. So what? That's not the point. Open source software development is slow, but it's steady, and an open source software package keeps on living as long as it has users.
Just because you release something as open source, doesnt mean that thousands will flock and provide free development.
What makes you think open source has ever been about "flocking"? Many open source projects have tightly knit, small developer communities that you couldn't become a part of if you wanted to. They do their stuff at their own pace and share the results with others.
Of course, because Mozilla started out as a closed source project using "professional, industry-standard development practices" it really started out as much more of a mess than an equivalent open source project. And the extensive support for proprietary platforms like Windows and Macintosh also greatly complicates Mozilla. Konqueror is a much better example of open source at work, and it matured much faster than Mozilla.
Now that it has made some progress, it is more difficult for a closed-source company to compete with it.
Good. That will mean that we don't get the same madness we had with Netscape vs. IE, with each company out-featuring the other. I'm glad to see, actually, that Mozilla isn't rushing out to copy every misfeature IE has introduced.
It exists, and will be difficult to eliminate... There is no company to go out of business to cause Mozilla to disappear.
Yup, that's the whole point. Now, if only IE went away as well, we'd all be better off.
The most relevant fact in this whole discussion is that Mozilla still exists. If Netscape software had remained closed source, it would have disappeared with AOL's absorption of Netscape. Keeping software available long after the initial creators have disappeared is what open source is all about, and no matter what you may think of Mozilla technology, that makes Mozilla an unqualified open source success.
I don't see many situations where people actually SAY they appreciate all the effort behind the code, but since Mozilla was released with tabbed browsing, it has become probably the one app that I use the most. It's not 100% perfect (nothing really is), but it's a damn fine job. *I* appreciate it. : )
-1 Flamebait? This doesn't look like a flamebait or a troll to me...and I used IE for God knows how long. *g*
-uso.
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In fact in another five years it's likely they will be up to version 3.0 and might be known by people outside the hard core techie industry.
Awe crap, the browser is minimally usable (oh, sorry gotta load up IE so I can view the corporate web site) barely accepted, and quite frankly a pipe dream of communist pinkos everywhere. When did we ever sell our sole to some moron foreign college student who wanted to build his own custom kernel? Get real people.
Microsoft --in less than five years--took a market share of 0 in the browser market and turned it to over 80%, and however you whine about how they did it was unfair, the did it. Now you do it. Cause if a college dropout can manipulate a company, marketing guidlines, and a group of programemrs, as well as acquire technologies needed along the way to be a success like that all you academia morons helping on the Mozilla project should be able to do the same.
Oh, but you are much to altruistic (i.e. poor stupid morons).
Everytime I try to view one of Google News's subsections (World, Entertainment, Business, etc), Mozilla locks up, and takes down the entire operating system too (seems like the entire file system stops responding after a minute or so), forcing a hard reboot. Every single last time.
I'm using Windows ME, and the latest version of Mozilla (1.3).
Does this happen to anyone else?
Here is a link to the World section you can try (SAVE YOUR WORK BEFORE IN CASE!):
http://news.google.com/news/gnworldleftnav.html
Google News is pretty plain as web pages go.. wtf is going on here? Is Moz messed up or do I have midget monkeys in my box pissing on the CPU?
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
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.
hahaha....like a kernel isn't a large scale project designed for everday use.
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It'll also be harder for closed-source to compete on a feature-by-feature basis.
I used 3.01 (!) for years because it was vastly easier (but still required a dropdown) to toggle image loading and Javashit; the options required a dropdown and single-tab menu. Inconvenient, but not too bad.
When I saw those options buried under a hierarchical menu in 4.x (presumably as an attempt to dissuade folks from turning 'em off - more ad revenue, more popups, and who cares if the browser crashes every time some malformed Javashit decides to blow it to smithereens), I regarded 4.x as a downgrade, not an upgrade.
It wasn't until I saw the XUL-Planet "preferences toolbar" with Mozilla 1.x that I had the kind of user control that - for all intents and purposes - should have been available in 1996.
On one hand, I'm still ch33z3d that it took seven years to fix a usability "bug" first introduced in 4.01.
On the other hand, looking at the trend towards adware and bannerware in closed-source software, I'm pretty sure that were it not for Mozilla, there'd have been no fix for that UI misfeature - ever.
and its a still a dinosaur....
"...a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use."
Mozilla is a lot of things, including my primary browser across three platforms.
However whenever I point out the lack of "completeness" especially with regards to documentation and formalisation of a product, I'm reminded (usually quite gently, bless the developers) that mozilla isn't and never was intended to be a complete browser. I'm told it's intended as a code base, a core for others to use, but it's not supposed to be a feature-and-document-complete browser.
So while I admire the team greatly and use the code constantly, it's not really a product for average users.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
I run a two-school network with all kinds of fussy Apple client management software, and IE will no longer cut it for me--it is constantly crashing and freezing many computers. Mozilla, however, is much more stable, configurable, and has more of an educational message behind it (yes, middle schoolers, one day you too can be given CVS check-in permission on a project like this). Happy 5th birthday. Please keep the Mac Classic build going for another year.
It was necessary. Linux needed a AAA browser.
A grade of "AAA" means "full combo, all perfects". That is, no bugs. The only way to guarantee bug-free software is to prove its correctness against the specification. At the current maturity level of software architecture, proving the correctness of a system as complex as a web browser is not feasible.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Mozilla. What a pile of crap.
I get mad every time I see stuff about Mozilla in the news. Debunking the myth that we can't make stuff for everyday folk? Bah, humbug! Mozilla is about the worstly engineered piece of software that I have ever seen. It is enormous. It is entirely much too complex for the purpose it fulfills, creating library after library of of complicated software layers that could probably be replaced by a 10 line routine. Sure, maybe these libraries could be used by other projects, but currently only the Gecko engine appears to be used as such, and the complication that has resulted from this messy "make it up as you go along" hacking has made Mozilla very buggy indeed.
Take the occasion that I tried to install it on my mother's computer. She had just bought this fancy new Sony that came preinstalled with another crappy piece of software: Windows XP. Normally, I would have wiped her hard drive and set up some Linux distro with all the saturated fat removed, but in this case, she needed to run proprietary Windows software that was written specifically for her company, and a Linux alternative did not yet exist. Since she hates Internet Explorer and was already familiar with older versions of Netscape, I installed Mozilla for her. What can I say? Her user account became so fscked up upon installation of this crappy program (which was supposed to be a stable release) that I had to log in to the other account, which I had thoughtfully set up during registration of the computer per my long experience with UNIX, erase her original account, remove all traces of this stupid Mozilla thing, and reset all of her settings, which is a pain in the a$$ in Losedows.
So I got mad and bought her Opera 6.05. It's the same browser that I use and the same one that I have purchased for other people to use, with my own money, to save them the hassle of using crappy inferior programs.
As far as web browsers (other than Opera) are concerned, you'd think that with the zillions of users who use the Internet, all of this crappy software would have been perfected years ago. But sadly, Microsoft's garbage slow trashy bloated shitty crashy piece of junk crappy inferior unreliable browser, which is clearly one of the best examples of programming flaws in the history of the Universe and everything that exists inside and outside of it, is actually better than this sadomasochism known as Mozilla.
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Well, I just found out that there is Matlab for linux... I guess I've just got to get this printer working...
neurostarNow that it has made some progress, it is more difficult for a closed-source company to compete with it.
What competition? Netscape and Opera have about the same market share as Mozilla with respect to Internet Explorer, i.e. not much at all.
It exists, and will be difficult to eliminate...
There has to be something to eliminate first. As of right now Mozilla isn't infringing on Internet Explorer's territory in any way that is either worrying Microsoft or causing a sweeping change in the way websites are designed.
I'll wait until the market shares are comparable before I think about Mozilla "competing" with anything.
The coolest voice ever.
Hi, don't let facts get in the way. The Google Zeitgeist shows a graph "Web Browsers Used To Access Google."
Don't let facts stand in the way of your delusions.
In that graph, that red line goes up.
And the yellow line goes down.
Don't let facts stand in the way of your delusions.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
They're running out of room in 32 bits
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
It sure would be great to get rid of the "Personal Toolbar" and still have the home button easily accessible somewhere.
OK, I'll have to start using Alt-Home more. But that requires yet another place for my hands to have to wander off the querty keys. I still want a single click button (which also rules out the Go->Home menu entry).
Is there any way to add a Home button to the navigation bar?
I get a sneaking suspicion Home is kept in the personal tool bar just to encourage people to have "The Mozilla Organization" and "Latest Builds" right their in their faces. A bit of self-promotion on the part of the toolbar coders, perhaps?
I 'm pretty sure you only needed DOS 5.0 to run Descent but 6.0 had a lot of neat utils like memmaker that helped. DOS could do more than just play Descent but not much and not well, so it really was just a Descent operating system. DOS Quake was good too though.
It's also strange that none of the replies to your excellent post interpretted it correctly.
-people care about the application;
-the application is held to a high standard;
-there will soon be 200,000 things anout which we do not have to worry.
Mozilla has been around for 5 years, with Netscape, and 100s (if not thousands) of developers behind it, and what have we really gotten out of it?
IMO, NOTHING!
Ya, Mozilla might be an alright browser, but not for 5 years worth of work. Everytime I've tried it, I've had nothing but problems with it.
The truth is out now.. Mozilla was originally an April Fool's Joke? But on who? M$?
Hehe..
The long time in between releases of Internet explorer has me a bit concerned for Mozilla. It just seems odd that they haven't even come out with 6.5 yet, let alone 7.0. I have heard rumors and the like, but I don't but a lot of faith in those. What I fear is Redmond is sitting back, and watching every move the Mozilla community makes. Then the popular stuff, they are putting into their browser. I would be shocked if that haven't added tabs to the development code yet. On my XP machine I.E. is my primary browser, and I do like how it runs on Windows since it really does run most websites best. I agree many are poorly coded, but there isn't much I can do about that. On my Powerbook though I use Camino and Safari.
I'm still using 1.3a because 1.3 is buggy piece of junk. I'm afraid 1.4 will be even worse. Are they treying to catch up with IE or what ?
It was made by Netscape.
~CGameProgrammer( );
I'll take a risk and belive the story is'nt April's joke. This time I got nothing to lose.
Happy birthday, Mozilla! :)
n0dez
Even if they were all bugs.
:)
That Mozilla has been and is robust enough to triage that many reports at all (all bugs, all duplicates, all RFEs, some mix of these -- not the point) is the thing that most impresses me.
Considering that many if not most *are* duplicates and generally get quickly marked that way is proof of how well it works.
My mention of 200,000 bugs was an admiring one -- they've built a project so good that (so far) has inspired users nearly a quarter of a million times to point out a flaw or suggest an improvement. That says they're doing something very right
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
The best IE wrapper is Avant Browser [avantbrowser.com]. Crazy Browser just isn't as good. Try both and see for yourself.
"WinME has problems with filesystems like you wouldn't believe."
Oh man, tell me about it. MS has been developing OS's for like 20 years, and they still have persistant problems crop up with such basic operations as deleting and renaming. Blows my mind.
Still.... google is just text and small simple graphics. Mozilla does just fine on everything else for me, so hard to believe something like google could cause such a cluster fuck.
Thanks for all the feedback though guys, now at least I know it's uncommon.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
we overflowed at bug# 65537 I'm sorry, but I just gotta. It would actually overflow at 65536 since unsigned 16-bit numbers only go from 0 to 65535. Again, I'm sorry -- obsessive-compulsive-ness is bad.
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