Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled
Submitted by praseodymium on Thu, 2005-03-10 23:31.
Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled - [mozillaZine]
Sad news for SeaMonkey users, but good news for Firefox: more users will use Firefox instead of the suite!
Today! Today! Glorious be Today!
Want to know the *day* I stopped installing Netscape?
The day it installed ICQ, Winamp, and some other program...without my asking.
I already had Winamp installed, actually a more recent version, and this just thoroughly borked my proprietary 5.1 audio plugin (which was *expensive* back in 99 or so).
I *hated* how Mozilla with a passion thereafter, never understanding why, why o why, it had so much bloat...ANy one remember the damn embedded HTML editor?!
In the end, of all things, it was the source code viewer that got me. IE opened the application associated with .txt, usually Notepad. In Netscape, Mozilla, and ::cry:: unmodded FireFox, you get this 1/2 assed pseudo-browser window and must copy+paste the stuff into your *real* editor before you can even read it.
From what I hear, the Moz devs have known pretty much for over a year that there would never be a 1.8, and virtually all the code was either bugfixing the incredibly poorly-designed (imho) Netscape megolith or wokring on the stuff that would make it into FireFox, Camino eventually...namely the rendering engine and standards support (like XForms).
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Today! Today! Glorious be Today! For the prophesy has been fullfilled!
The Book of Mozilla stands true! For surely the Beast has been slain! Behold! The BEAST was not Microsoft, it was the Suite, and *now* "the followers of Mammon cower in horror!" -- Book of Mozilla 7:15
My history
I stopped using IE just a few years ago. We had only one PC, and Netscape 7 allowed me to have multiple browser profiles - so also my own emailbox, bookmarks etc. When I had my own PC I started using Mozilla instead. And when Firefox was stable (around version 0.8), I started using that - and I still use it now.
LOL!
I started when it was called Phoenix :P I thought 0.5 was more stable than 0.6 or 0.8, and even tho 0.9 was lethargic, at least it doesn't use up 500MB of RAM like 1.0.1 :(
Think that's an overstatement? You underestimate my zeal for tabs :p
System uptime: 15 days
FireFox windows open: 8
FireFox tabs open: 11 + 1 + 1 + 15 + 9 + 1 + 2 + 20 = 60
Image Name Mem Usage VM Size
firefox.exe 307672 K 589944 K
Physical: 2096492 K
Available: 1065556 K
Disk Cache: 1323716 K
Now you see why 1 GB just isn't enough for me :-/
Closing all FireFox tabs but this one, gmail, and aventuremail...
firefox.exe 324680 K 568328 K
It boggles my mind ... not only did it not free any RAM, but now the system thinks previously-cached old RAM is now to be uncached :-/ Fortunately! As of Daily Build 20050307 I have no longer experienced this problem. However, half of my plugins don't work (prgooglebar, pagestatus, webdev, and gmail) and it crashes whenever I click+drag on a text field.
-hope-
heh
How did you do that? I've never had such problems here... I use my own compiled Firefox though.