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Galeon Developers Interview
Nachtjäger writes "The Galeon website has an interview with the developers, describing overall project health, current problems, and future direction. There's also a place to ask your own questions for future interviews."
What is better?
a) The Galeon browser?
or
b) Sex with a mare?
They've been hit badly because the developer of Epiphany is a *major* ass kisser of Havoc Pennington (Red Hat) -- it's hugely embrassing really, watching the brownnoser politics at work. The Epiphany browser is dogshit... literally... it's is unusable for anything real like browsing, and yet Pennington feels the need to put it as a default in RedHat because the developer backs him up on his extremist "no features" jihad.
Gnome is rapidly becoming a major clusterfuck these days. Which is a shame, because the only other real option is selling yourself to SCO (aka... Trolltech's owner), and subjecting yourself to the full GPL just to write desktop apps, or paying SCO $3000 for every developer.
Here is my question.
Why don't you do something useful for a change? Your software sucks shit. It is bloated, slow, riddled with bugs, and an embarrasment to the open source community.
The world does NOT need another shitty half-ass browser.
FOAD
When will you dump gecko for the native gtkhtml engine. Its faster, its got DECENT fonts and its easier to develop for.
HA! Like you would understand it if you saw it.
Which is it asswipe. One person eariler claimed it was "only" 6%, now someone says 2%, and finally you say 1.6%. My guess it's closer to 25%
You know, you don't have to take it up your ass, just push the tip against your anus and rub along and he will pump his whole load into you. Besides, reasonable amount of stretching lets you absorb whole stallion cock, together with the flare.
(although fonts stink worse than layer of smegma on a stallion who hasn't been let coles to a mare for a year.)
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 web browsers. 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 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves 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 Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Galeon posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Galeon. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.
Netscape went 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
Galeon 1.0 and 1.2 were awesome.
1.3/2.0 is stripped of all useful features. The developers went on some stupid, stupid, stupid tirade about how having no features makes it easy to use. You couldn't be more WRONG! You learn the hard way -- no one wants your Galeon 1.3/2.0.
Go FIREBIRD!