On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 13:30:17 +0200 esteemed illion did hold forth thusly:
> If you would introduce Mozilla and IE 5 to an old let�s say
> grandpa. I can tell you mozilla would not win.
And this is the basic problem. Why release a new browser that isn't going to
be more appealing to the totally neutral observer?
> My feeling is that mostly the tekkies find mozilla good
> and make claims that it is the best browser, and that
> they have been using it for a year and so on.
I use Moz, IE, and Opera just about every day. I find Moz to be noticeable
slower and less stable and it messes up with ignoring clicks or failing to
load a page more ofen than the other two.
> From my untechnical end-user point of view, mozilla is with
> 0.9.2 a early beta product. Please take your time and make it
> right and BETTER FASTER than IE and OPERA otherwise why release it ?
Agreed.
> Why would anyone release a product if it has no advatages over the
> competition. Standards is no end-user thing.
Exactly. Regular people who are just out browsing web sites (ie non-
developers, and those who have no political motivations vis a vis MSFT) are
the ones that Moz needs to attract.
So far the biggest unique thing I like about Moz is the "What's Related" page
on the left. Its the one thing about it that lets me find new and interesting
sites. I can cite many more unique features of Opera that I like. Their mouse
gesture feature is very cool. The Ctrl-Shift-Click for opening new windows
behind the existing window is also very cool. I also like being able to right
click on a bookmark folder and choose Add Current Page to add a bookmark to
that folder.
