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Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla

Posted by timothy on from the dcc-in-chatzilla-would-be-nice dept.

Ars-Fartsica writes "MozillaZine is now featuring a set of slides regarding future directions for Mozilla that were detailed at the recent Mozilla developers meeting. SVG and integration with programming languages are among the directions discussed."

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  1. Re:Acrobat crashes FireFox. Memory leaks verified. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    According to your own "UNCONFIRMED" (not "verified") bug, Linux also becomes unstable from using Mozilla FireFox.

    The obvious conclusion is that FireFox is either a phenomenally buggy piece of shit, or that most of the bug reporters are idiots.

    (My firefox leaks memory and crashes all the time, but I've never seen any system instability.)

  2. Re:MS by Kevan_moran · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    I downloaded FireFox the other week. I uninstalled it yesterday.

    I loved it. The tabs concept is great. Many features are excellent. Except...

    Roughly once an hour clicking back would simply take my machine (windows XP portable) out. Not even the blue screen of death but a black screen.

    If someone can tell me how to rectify the problem then I'd be very happy.

    I'm a senior IT manager for a corporate. Over the last year I've become more and more impressed by some open source initiatives. In particular uPortal from ja-sig.org. V good product for it's problem domain. This led me onto JUnit and MockObjects.

    The major selling point to me is not the price. In my experience, the support is better with uPortal than with the equivalent commercial software. I can get an answer off the listserv in an hour when it might take a week or more from a commercial equivalent.

    I looked at FireFox in the hope that it would prove to me that a broader look at OSS would be a good idea. But really, a product that kills my machine every hour or so it not really a starter.

    Prove me wrong - please, please prove me wrong