Mozilla's modularity (Score 2)

With todays technology why can't they build the beast so that it's modular, if you want all of the bloat.. okay... just plug it in. Whatever happened to the basic Unix philosophy of making small programs that WORK and can be used as building blocks to do larger tasks. WHY MUST I BE OPPRESSED WITH BLOAT ?????

Actually, Mozilla is very modular. The loader itself (apprunner) is less than 20KB. Everything else is done with shared libraries, this biggest of which is less than 500KB.

That's not to say I disagree with everyone's main point here--that the developers should have first focused their energies on the HTML/browser component instead of the Java/email/NNTP cruft. If they had, we might not have got into this silly debate about Mozilla being a "failure" in the first place.