Hey, they have secret dinosaurs living in the center of the Earth and Wi-Fi killing people; it can't be any worse.

*does Smith vigorous hand-flap*

I used to play Sauerbraten until that one release where they suddenly doubled the movement speed. That was a shock.

90% of everything is crap.

Um, technically Firefox (2004) is a branch of a rebrand (Mozilla Suite, 1998) of an open-sourced product (Netscape Communicator, 1997) that was the successor of a commercial suite (Netscape Navigator, 1994) written by the same guys who did Mosaic back in 1993.

Apparently IE was also based on Mosaic around the same time. But did IE end up in the same boat as Windows 1.0-3.0 where nobody actually used it willingly until 3.1? 3.0 was August 1996, then 6.0 sat and chilled from 2001 until 2006.

With the amount of redesigning they've done with IE over the last several years I hardly think it's accurate to say Firefox is more of a reinvention. It was a long evolution that kept getting new names and teams working on it (although the Mozilla Suite lives on as SeaMonkey today, too).

P.S: For some bizarre reason, the IE Wikipedia article jumps from 1.5 to 8 in their main narrative. Um...pretty sure 6 was pretty noteworthy for a long time...

People are stupid and shit doesn't work.

Welcome to life

The U.S. got away with not launching any nukes? It was concluded the Russian satellite detection system malfunctioned.

What I was going to say. How much could they exercise their morals if they were conquered by the USSR?

As usual it's a question of idealism vs. pragmatism

i.e. "we wanted more of it"

You just go ahead and let us know whether you still feel like a smug bastard when it turns out he's right.

"Pingly" also sounds vaguely like a 6-year-old boy referring to his genitals

I'd better register Flingity-Flingity.com before somebody else adds it to their list of ridiculous, meaningless Web 2.0 names to use.

Pingly, Vimeo, Hulu, Bing, Twitter...they all sound like effeminate names you give your cat.

Gotta butch up the place. How about PixShitter...PixelHaul...FaceServe (does what it says on the box but probably would get sued by facebook)....PosterGun?

Okay, yes, it's the degradation of the experience as a whole, not the actual program itself. The spark plug analogy is a bit off...it'd be more like transplanting the engine from one car into another and just kind of hooking up all the tubes and wires and hoping for the best.

But updating the software to accommodate system changes will get it working again (probably).

Or you could just stay on the same OS forever (the life of the software), I suppose.

Yeah, discussing the boot process is for script kiddies. Now get off my damn lawn so I can go back to programming with a magnetized needle and a steady hand!

code rot

By and large, they like it because it is so conservative NOW.

Not on release. He never said that.