Comments on: Why Mozilla sucks? Fosdem 2010

By: Pham Huy Anh

Pham Huy Anh — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:43:47 +0000

Hi, technically Mozilla stuff may “suck” but the idea of open plugin and everything is free is great.

BTW, I have to admit that XUL “is reinvent the wheel”.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:24:30 +0000

Well, whenever I use anything flash / shockwave. Firefox decides its going to screw up all of the sudden. Make all my bookmark icons , the reload button, the stop loading button, the home button, the forward a page button, the back a page button, and my add on-s vanish until I close out of it so it can tell me I have Firefox already running but not responding then make me shut down my computer log back in and have the whole thing start over again.

By: Bogo

Bogo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:24:42 +0000

It was not approved.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:36:27 +0000

So how did your FOSDEM talk go? Are the slides or a recording available?

By: Janson

Janson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:42:39 +0000

I’m yet to get a single mail reassuring me that my bug has been fixed. Numerous crashes. I’ve always made effort to type details about the crash. I just pray and keep using Firefox. Hope my crashes are fixed sub-rosa.

Startup time is unpardonable. ’nuff said.

And firefox is bottom heavy, obese even. It just doesn’t go away when i close it. The process runs in my Task Manager forever.

I’m averagely literate and so have no problem in navigating the SUMO. But could i expect it from my bright yet old-school grandpa?

Why would any sane netbook user install firefox?

Add-ons guys are great though. They are geniuses, their apllications mirror my mind and most of them always painstakingly answer my dumb e-mails asking them questions. In fact add-ons are single greatest the reason i love firefox. Community, rightly, is the strength of the fox.

By: Marc Diethelm

Marc Diethelm — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:01:15 +0000

Mozilla SUCKS because XUL was never completed, formalized or versioned and is unusable to create precisely designed cross platform GUIs other than a browser. Endless CSS hacks are needed to get kinda close to that goal. Mozilla the platform never materialized (apparently in order to ensure the survival of Firefox. Resources were and are limited).

Mozilla SUCKS because Fennec has no implementation in Java for mobiles.

I love Mozilla.

By: Robyn Wiles

Robyn Wiles — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:25:07 +0000

Thunderbird can’t migrate its own files from one HDD to another automatically. It gives options for the competition but not for their own client! How shocking is that?

By: raychje

raychje — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:36:11 +0000

Old bugs do NOT get fixed!

There are ~ 1200 bugs that are marked as “New” that have not been touched in over FIVE years. Why should a person bother filing a bug when there is a strong probability NOTHING will get done to fix it.

There needs to be a bug fix release of Firefox that ONLY fixes old bugs. A bug marked as “New” is a real bug and should be fixed. As bugs age there priority should increase. New features are great, but old features need to be improved as well.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:01:38 +0000

It has been said before, but must be said again: MDC! API documentation inside a wiki simply does not work. XULPlanet was shut down, and replaced by a horribly slow Minddev wiki, which has no real search function (only Google and site:developer.mozilla.org gives you good search results), which uses HTTPS for no reason other than to make it even slower, which is down a couple hours every week and has no real structure (well, it’s a wiki, I know …).

Documentation IS important and it would be so much easier for developers to get things done if I wouldn’t have to grep + google all the time.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:54:27 +0000

Why does Mozilla suck? Because the NSS developers aren’t interested in breaking the PKIX SSL cert oligopoly by implementing RFC 5054, TLS/SRP. Because a history feature I implemented (storing referrer) was forgotten in the conversion to Places. Because Firefox pauses while scrolling a text webpage. Because Gecko leaks X memory so I have to restart X (or get more RAM – I now have 6GB just to run Iceweasel and Iceape). Because your trademark policy is stupid. Because there’s no .msi installer. Because you let projects silenty die – anyone remember ScreamingMonkey or the new Linux embedding API? How about Mozilla 2, the uberplatform to save Gecko and the web? Haven’t heard anything about those in a while. Because the preferences menu item changes between platforms. Bug numbers and links blog posts extolling undelivered features available on request.