> Also check out what client I am using tonight. > That gives me the right to bash.
I can see that you are using Netscape, not Mozilla. That gives you the right to bash Netscape. Not Mozilla. Please download Mozilla from www.mozilla.org to know that your complaints do not apply to Mozilla. Among the first things you will notice are: 1) Moz doesn't come with Real Player. 2) Moz doesn't put AOL shortcuts everywhere. 3) Moz doesn't send searches to Netscape. 4) Composer is much better than Netscape's. 5) It uses a lot less memory than Netscape. 6) With Quick Launch on, it now loads faster than IE and Opera. I agree with you that Netscape 6 sucks. Everyone in Mozilla agrees with you here. However, most of your comments only apply to Netscape, not to Mozilla. This is the reason I switched to Mozilla. About why there is no 1.0 yet, please read this article: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/18/magazine/good_lizard.html An analogy: Two men were tasked to saw a large pile of wood each. The first man, eager to finish quickly, started to saw at once. The second man did not start immediately, but instead he sharpened his saw. In the end, who did a better job? Hundreds of "quickie" browsers are made everyday. I myself can just drop an IE ActiveX control into a VB form and I have my own browser! But Mozilla.org decided to build an underlying technology instead, called XPCOM and XUL, that will allow Mozilla to work across different platforms. These technologies are like sharpening the saw. Once they are done, making the browser (cutting the wood) is much better. 4 years is not bad, considering that it took Microsoft 12 years to build their set of API's and it still doesn't work perfectly. I agree with you that Moz Mail is not yet as good as OE. I myself am writing this message in Outlook Express. But Moz is improving at a much faster rate than IE/OE. I'm willing to bet that 5 years from now Moz will be the browser and email client of choice for most people. Have a nice day. Bamm
