Two Interesting Mozilla Articles

DragonHawk writes "First, a short review of the Milestone Ten release, which gives you a good idea of where Mozilla is at. Second, and more interesting, is this article on press attitude towards Mozilla. It gives you a real good idea of how big a project this is, and just how far they've come. Any web user should check them out. "

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Not just the press

[rde]

Hands up all you mozilla bashers out there... slashdot must have the lowest ratio of feeding hands to biters in the quadrant.
Will Opera be better than Mozilla? Possibly. Is that a reason for abandoning Mozilla as doomed from the start? Absolutely not.
I've been using M10 for a while now, and I've got to say I'm impressed with the progress that's been made.

Shame on Netscape. They were supposed to build a web browser to meet the growing needs of today's users and instead they went and built a web browsing architecture to meet the growing needs of tomorrow's users and businesses. But I wanted it now, damnit!

Well said, that man. You've stirred at least one soul into resolving to finally getting around to submitting bug reports.

Remember: Mozilla may be bug-ridden, but that's mainly because of the large number of unreasonable assholes who look on it as a finished product, and give up as soon as there's a dodgy refresh.
It's not even beta, for fuck's sake.

Public attitudes to Mozilla.

[scrutty]

I'd just like to point out that IMHO public perceptions of the health of mozilla might improve a whole bunch if it was easier to get the darn beast to run

I don't think I've had a usable result out of any of the linux milestone builds since M6. It seems to be hellishly sensitive to shared library versions that I just don't seem to find commonly in place on many of the linux boxes I use.

I realise that this comment will generate a multitude of responses along the lines of "It works just fine for me loser, stop spreading FUD" but I'm just honestly reporting the state of play as I find it.

I would love to use a OS browser with the functionality that Mozilla offers , I would like to chip in to the development towards stability, even if only in the form of usable bug reports, just not quite enough to manually upgrade my libc , C++ runtime , compiler , ORB etc to match what seem to be specific linking requirements that you just don't get from the majority of GTK Unix Apps, even including that cherished old scapegoat for stability problems, GNOME .

The searching I have done seems to indicate that the released builds will work fine out of the box on up to the minute Red Hat installations, but I haven't been able to coax them into working on the older Red Hat SuSE or Debian boxes I have access to.

I'm just wondering if the ability to run on a wider range of GNU/Linux systems out there might engage or enhance that massively parallel debugging engine that helps drive OS projects along at such a staggering rate of improvement.