Looks like the Mozilla Foundation has finally decided to give up development efforts on the Mozilla suite of software, which was initially designed to be a lean, mean, and still fully featured take on Netscape Communicator, in favor of sleeker stand-alone applications like Firefox and Thunderbird. I have to admit, I was a Mozilla early adopter back in the pre-Firefox days, and used it for email as well as web surfing. It was the natural progression of a fast and sleek yet comprehensive browser/email suite from the old Netscape 4.x days, and I thought it was exactly what the web needed. The vulnerabilities of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express were already well documented, and I wanted to steer clear of them both. The newer Netscapes, 6.x and 7.1 were both memory-leaking, bloated footprint, poorly coded pieces of trash, and I wanted to steer clear of them as well. Mozilla was the perfect answer.
I’m unhappy at the decision by the Mozilla Foundation, but it was only a matter of time. Their energies and efforts are better spent focused on Firefox and Thunderbird as standalone web and email applications, which compliment each other but don’t need to come together, and thus easier compete with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express as other stand-alone applications. Regardless, Mozilla has been ebraced by much of the user community, and many organizations (including mine) have been touting it as the best thing since Netscape, and superior to Internet Explorer. Guess it’s time to start moving those people to Firefox, eh? I figure that’s exactly what the Mozilla Foundation wants. Read the full announcement:
[ http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120012,tk,dn031105X,00.asp ]
Now let’s see what happens to Camino…