Posted on 03/15/2005 8:07:44 PM PST by GeorgiaFreeper
FireFox may be in danger of "rotting from the inside out" according to industry experts including one of the developers on the FireFox review team. Lack of attention by developers and money from supporters may end the meteoric rise of the browser where it is today.
Forget about Microsoft coming out with IE 7 to challenge Firefox. If Firefox rots from the inside out; the way so many other programs, like the original Netscape browser, did; then it's not going anywhere much beyond where it is now.
In an EWeek article, the author declares his support for FireFox but raises serious concerns with how the project is being managed.
I think Firefox is the best browser on the planet, but it's not going to stay that way long unless the team behind it gets their act together sooner rather than later.
Mike Connor, a core Firefox developer, writes in his blog,
"In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think we're in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews. And I'm on the verge of just walking away indefinitely, since it feels like I'm the only person who cares enough to make it an issue."
Finally the author ends the article with this summary.
If the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox friends like Google don't start spending money—right now—to hire more programmers, more project managers and more servers, it won't matter how many ads in the New York Times Firefox supporters take out, Firefox will have already reached its high tide of popularity and we can only wait for the ebb to begin.
Read the entire EWeek article
You can also read Mike Connor's Blog Here.
And Bill Gates donates millions to abort babies in Africa through the UN and Planned Parenthood International. I guess all MS users love to aobrt poor african kids right?
Firefox has its problems, but it's still far better than IE. I especially like being able to easily write an extension to change the behavior any way I want.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
I never liked PDF files. To me they're bloated and clunky, and Reader 6 is crash prone, and I surely don't like how they force that goofy "my Ebooks" folder in My Documents, so I'm sticking with 5. Since it plugs into IE I just use IE when needed.
Because of the Java problems I've stayed away from plugins for Mozilla in general, only using Flash. I don't like Flash either, because it can sometimes be a CPU spiking mess. For about the last month I thought my trackball was going bad on me, because single clicks would turn into doubles, dragging wouldn't work smoothly, or even at all for several moments, but it was intermittent. I did a reinstall last Friday, (something I just like to do every now and then), and waited a couple of days before reinstalling Firefox, in case the problem was related to 1.01 just coming out, and just today put the Flash 7 plugin back, and so far no problems.
Mozilla has its ways, but so do other things. I can't count the times in two days where in IE that idiot box would popup asking me if I wanted to install and run the Flash plugin, and until it first loads into the cache you'll sit there on a dialup wondering what in the heck is on that site and why won't it load? People must be getting some kind of kickback from Macromedia. ;)
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