My friend, Anonymous Coward, is 100% right on, but Mozilla.org and the Firefox community is in deep denial.
If anything, Firefox ought to hide from advertising! Last thing that browser needs right now is more people using it and becoming disillusioned. They think b/c of the success of their initial advertising that it will address their current problem.
Look, Mozilla.org, you did a great job and have a significant accomplishment. Now, it's time to step aside and let someone else run the show, someone who knows how to run this kind of operation & development.
You're in denial. And I didn't sign up to using it to become a volunteer. If that's your expectation, well, that's why nobody keeps using it. And if you want my time to help fix it, even by writing a bug report, then pay for it with that cash you're rolling in.
I'll say it again: The Firefox leaders don't know what steps to take to make this a great application and bury IE. And while I'm at it, substitute Firefox/IE with OpenOffice/Office. In the meantime, Windows users will use IE, Mac users will use Safari, and Firefox will have a devoted following to all those Linux desktop users...all 0.1%.
Here's a bone:
1. Go get someone to run it under purify/quantify with a few of the most popular plugins/extensions and on some of the most popular Web sites. 2. Clean up.
This story confirm my experience and suspicions. I -really- wanted to switch. Really! I downloaded the l&g. I installed nice extensions/plugins, including Fasterfox Google's toolbar, but, well, Firefox is a pig. 500MB processes. 100% CPU when switching tabs. And the only things I get are plenty of excuses ("it's the Google toolbar," "we're working on it") and tweaking every unknown about:config setting there is.
The king is naked as a jaybird.
Forget the 12 points. More marketing?! Better installer & start page?! You're kidding yourselves. You need to clean up this pig, and make it lean & mean.
Sorry, but there needs to be better leadership.
In the meantime, you've wasted my time, and this is my last page with Firefox.
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My friend, Anonymous Coward, is 100% right on, but Mozilla.org and the Firefox community is in deep denial.
If anything, Firefox ought to hide from advertising! Last thing that browser needs right now is more people using it and becoming disillusioned. They think b/c of the success of their initial advertising that it will address their current problem.
Look, Mozilla.org, you did a great job and have a significant accomplishment. Now, it's time to step aside and let someone else run the show, someone who knows how to run this kind of operation & development.
In the meantime, short Firefox.
You're in denial. And I didn't sign up to using it to become a volunteer. If that's your expectation, well, that's why nobody keeps using it. And if you want my time to help fix it, even by writing a bug report, then pay for it with that cash you're rolling in.
I'll say it again: The Firefox leaders don't know what steps to take to make this a great application and bury IE. And while I'm at it, substitute Firefox/IE with OpenOffice/Office. In the meantime, Windows users will use IE, Mac users will use Safari, and Firefox will have a devoted following to all those Linux desktop users...all 0.1%.
Here's a bone:
1. Go get someone to run it under purify/quantify with a few of the most popular plugins/extensions and on some of the most popular Web sites.
2. Clean up.
This story confirm my experience and suspicions. I -really- wanted to switch. Really! I downloaded the l&g. I installed nice extensions/plugins, including Fasterfox Google's toolbar, but, well, Firefox is a pig. 500MB processes. 100% CPU when switching tabs. And the only things I get are plenty of excuses ("it's the Google toolbar," "we're working on it") and tweaking every unknown about:config setting there is.
The king is naked as a jaybird.
Forget the 12 points. More marketing?! Better installer & start page?! You're kidding yourselves. You need to clean up this pig, and make it lean & mean.
Sorry, but there needs to be better leadership.
In the meantime, you've wasted my time, and this is my last page with Firefox.