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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. Three OS X options... by XavierItzmann · · Score: 2, Informative

    Collins is correct that whereas some people prefer the Konqueror-based Safari, others will prefer the Mozilla-based Firefox or Camino.
    Of course, there are further options, such as Netscape 7.1 (Mozilla), Opera, etc.

    Personally, I love Safari, other than the problem with a handful of sites, such as Citibank's online banking, that only work with Camino.

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    1. Re:Three OS X options... by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Informative

      Personally, I love Safari, other than the problem with a handful of sites, such as Citibank's online banking, that only work with Camino.

      Have you tried faking the user agent string to make Safari identify itself as Internet Explorer? You can do it by enabling the 'Debug' menu.

      My father uses the European Citibank's online banking with Konqueror itself - it needed the user agent thing doing, and (I think) popup windows enabling, but I don't think he's had any problems with it since.

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  2. Netscape 5 by gUmbi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Joel Spolsky on joelonsoftware.com (he provides some excellent insights for programmers - highly recommended) wrote a great article titled 'Things You Should Never Do, Part 1' - using Netscape 5 as the case study.

    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog000000 00 69.html

  3. Re:I think I know by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Informative

    JWZ wasn't an executive, he was the project technical lead.

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  4. Re:A soul? by Paladine97 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try MyIE2. It's awesome. All the features you want (including tabbed browsing) and then some.

    MyIE2

  5. Re:Who is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You guys are very much on the wrong track. JWZ was not an executive. Although he can be polarizing (people love him or hate him), and opinionated, he wouldn't have been that stupid.

    No, the likely candidate is Mike Homer. He was VERY influential in the old Netscape organization, and from everything I've heard he was a major asshole.

  6. Re:Who is it? by Brendan+Eich · · Score: 3, Informative
    > No, the likely candidate is Mike Homer.

    Nope. Next guess?

    Ok, I composed plain text but posted as HTML by accident, and this is a repost. Here's a hint to make up for that goof: the VP that I believe scc meant was not around for Netscape's IPO, but was acquired later. Hint 2: the acquisition had nothing to do with anything in Netscape 4.

    /be