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Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla
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."
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. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. 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.
Due to the troubles of Mozilla, abysmal sales and so on, 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
We really have to admit that Mozilla is in decline. In all likelihood, there may be only one more (or possibly two) releases before Mozilla goes away forever.
I know it is now almost a mantra set in stone that "Mozilla is dying". Unfortunately, the abuse of that fact by trolls has obscured the truth, that truth being that Mozilla really is dying.
My main reason for moving away from Mozilla to Internet Explorer has been twofold. First, to avoid the constant name changes (Phoenix^WFirebird^H^H^H^Hfox). And secondly, to investigate more promising and viable entries in the web browser sweepstakes. Mozilla is no longer a legitimate player, I'm sorry to say.
It's quite ironic that it does not work properly in the Mozilla Browser.
1. Make browser and presentation
2. ???
3. Proken presentation; no profit
Did you just come on the intarweb superhighway? That feature is not poorly documented; it's common sense. I suggest you tell your Mommy to turn the AOL parental controls back on and come back to the net when you grow some pubes.
Too bad the logo is non-free and will never be checked into public CVS.
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=509
From a distance it kinda looks like the SCO logo though...
The solution is to install Windows. Or use something other than X. Oh but wait, that leaves you with just a fucking console. Scratch that. Go ahead, just install XP Pro. It's a real OS with a real GUI.