... Mozilla project's lousiest effort (in terms of stability and usefulness) is their cross platform GUI code.
Microsoft didn't have to stop them on that front.
They did it all by themselves.
It is trivial to crash any version of Mozilla browser due to the GUI toolkit bugs in less than 5 minutes on any platform for which the browser is available.
One doesn't even have to try really hard.
Furthermore, the project developers have steadfastily ignored all quality feedback reports pertaining to buggy GUI code.
I remember posting my first feedback in '99 and the same bugs are still in the browser.
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... Mozilla project's lousiest effort (in terms of stability and usefulness) is their cross platform GUI code.
Microsoft didn't have to stop them on that front.
They did it all by themselves.
It is trivial to crash any version of Mozilla browser due to the GUI toolkit bugs in less than 5 minutes on any platform for which the browser is available.
One doesn't even have to try really hard.
Furthermore, the project developers have steadfastily ignored all quality feedback reports pertaining to buggy GUI code.
I remember posting my first feedback in '99 and the same bugs are still in the browser.
It's quite sad, really.