Re:Misplaced blame (Score 1)

They're not fully customizable. by 'fully customizable' I mean more than 'being able to skin'. For one thing you can't do things like move the standard buttons and the address bar all up onto the same row, saving screen space.

And if mozilla loads at the same speed as IE6 on your girlfriends' laptop, I suggest you get her laptop looked at, seeing as how there sounds like there's something wrong with it. IE6 loads instantly even on my meagre hardware, compared with 10 seconds to load mozilla and 5 to load phoenix (compared with almost 15 to load on a standard, fresh install of debian 3 on the same hardware). For that matter, i'm fully aware how IE works and I think its a good thing. If its the single most-used application on 90% of Windows computers, why not cache it on startup? Why not integrate it into the operating system and let other parts of the OS draw on the same resources? That sounds like a remarkably efficient idea to me. Why can't mozilla cache itself like that? Phoenix can at the moment but the last I heard was that feature was going to be removed in the next release because of 'compatibility problems'. That sounds like a rather large step in the wrong direction for me, as they certainly won't have secured me as a user until they can sort it out.

And as for smooth scrolling, why did you even bother to argue the point? The fact is that mozilla can't do it. Wether or not you think that it's a useful features probably depends on things like how much you value your computers' ability to render all these fancy 'colours' and interface with one of these new-fangled 'mice' devices. I don't appreciate IE any more for having it, but I sure as hell missed it when I switched to mozilla and it wasn't there.