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Ars Technica Interviews Scott Collins

Posted by michael on from the uphill-in-the-snow-both-ways dept.

SnoopTodd writes "Ars Technica has an interview with Scott Collins of Mozilla. 'That's the thing I learned to lust after as a programmer. It's not my ability to solve one problem, to plow this field, but the ability to build a plow that every farmer uses. The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. I want Mozilla to be there again. IE is a browser with no soul. I want it to be Mozilla because I think that people who care deserve a browser with a soul.'"

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  1. soul eh by phrasebook · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What would be the features adding 'soul' to Mozilla and Firefox?

    - The ugly, non-standard user interface that looks wrong on every platform?

    - The collection of themes? Do they add soul? Or the bickering and complaining in the community over stuff like what new theme to use as default? And the apparent rejection of their comments?

    - The generally lower speed and reliability compared to IE on Windows?

    Well, this is what I've noticed recently anyway. Don't get me wrong, I use Mozilla myself everyday and haven't touched IE in a year or more. But when I look at Mozilla, it's about as soulful as a dirty sock. A dirty sock with tabs and popup-blocking, though.