Mozilla is a Failure

Mozilla 99% dead

Mozilla users may need to groom themselves for the developers of their product making about-faces every now and then, and abruptly abandoning the development of one product for its own derivative. Autofellatic as it is, it seems to be the fashion, and FireFox users should start preparing themselves.

I used to reject the notion that open-source developers compete with themselves (personally) but I'm seeing more of it with each passing month. I've held out hope of a mozilla 1.8, one with a long-awaited superset of Netscape 4.75 features, but I'm not even sure that will happen.

Natives are Restless

I'm affected on a professional level as well. In deliberations as to what we will include in our next release, I'd like to confidently stand up for Mozilla, but the Attention Deficit may be to their own detriment -- our support window for a single release may be longer than the Entire Life Cycle of a Mozilla product, from inception to abandonment. We'll pick a product that's more likely to be supported in 4 years, and we've lost a lot of confidence that FF/TB will be similarly Too Boring to continue development.

At least the MSIE heads have a retort:
"Will it still be in development on Monday?"