The Firefox team is probably the OSS group generating the most hot air in a close lead in front of the de Icaza dude. Take a look of their statements over the years and how they changed objectives as soon as they realised it's waaay over their might. Remember how they started with the smallest pack and quickest? By the next (they call it major) upgrade they turned back and bloated the code as with Mozilla, this time with the inconvenience of the add ons. Which add ons nobody seems to remark that they are not brought in a safe way and memory leaks are still an issue, well, for the Firefox developers it's something with no connection with their browser. So their marketing tool, already proven to be very effective, is lie lie lie than forget.

Just like the teenage runaway who believes in fairies and that people would be nice and pay for sexual services just like that, the basement geek thrives in the same LaLaLand. Just because you can write a few lines of code in some scripting language doesn't mean they are fit for becoming a _programmer_ and start their own enterprise. There are a lot of costs involved, and patents and licencing are just a tiny part of this mix. Just because aunt Bunny gave this guy a shinny laptop and there is no rent to pay while living with the parents does not make the programming business a zero cost environment.

I believe that you can call that a good example of have the cake and eat it too. Either don't buy tempting stuff or risk them being stolen. Our guy has invented the "have the cake, eat it, but also keep as much as possible from the ingredients" by trying to be "safe, on a budget". This seems to be the rule of the modern western society - I'm a hippie and into giving stuff as long as I own nothing, yet once I start to accumulate I'm for the ownership rights and lower taxes.

Interesting idea, very bad execution. Sure, next to a geek armed with Gimp they seem good, but this should not be the comparing standard.

Accepting such a software on your computer can lead to this kind of thing or worse. So why bother to report it?

Two decades ago a whole system would fit on a 1.2" floppy. A game as complex as Elite (8 galaxies) would fit in 48K of memory and would have mesh graphics. Nowadays, after what they believe is propper training and colege education every moron needs eye candy and sound themes that should change with the mood making a system able to fit on a DVD after making some of the multimedia content available online for free. We need Tb for what? For having duplicate copies of the google databases? A game supporting a number of hardware devices itself (and not through some other layer) designed to work on a 386 needs to be slowed down in order to make it playable, yet a Linux desktop with all the bells and wistles needs almost a minute till you enter some comands. On the current storage units you can do video processing, yet for a regular user "that's not enough". Oh, really?

I mean look at the sites around... every dork with an unlicensed dreamweaver installed computer becomes a "designer". Scripting 2-3 lines in JS or PHP also promotes you to "web programmer". How come?

Gee! Four computers and living in the partents' house? That would teach'm some independence and cut down on his time spent online!

What about performance? What about stability? What about less bloat and some more functionality? Is this really a browser for the monkeys? Flash (still, quite used as surprising as it might be to the developers) can crash it and take all the tabs with it. The addons (which they never fail to mention) can do a lot of things including memory leaks. How about that before going for the candy? Ooops, for that they need to get some programmers.

So weird to get reality checks like this post. I mean you assume the geeks were the smart, but socialy inept... yet you discover at any turn that the geeks aren't smart thus the social problems.
The CPU numbers were never clear. 486 100mHz it's not the same as Pentium 100mHz, which is not the same with 586 100mHz. And this is only in the same league. Enter different generations, different manufacturing processes, RISC vs CISC, different cores...
At least Intel is fair now and does not imply that there is a connection. And this just makes the stupidity surface - "I can't make any sense if there's no Hz count"

I guess it's time to change the laws in the light of the new tech developments and ban from driving anyone caught dirving comanded by a machine.

I mean what kind of sick fun is to watch a normal person run against a disabled and still win? Firefox has the base of the oldest web browser still alive. It had it all and the best results were in competition with something like Internet Explorer 4.0 or something. After a few change of names it is still the same dated design with some extra bloat and hacks for the Acid test. The firefox fork started promising with the lightest pack... but by version 1.0 it was already about screwing people and getting the google money. At this point it was more than obvious that at a certain point in the future Google will cut the middle man and do things right. Google Chrome has a not so long history and it is already waaay ahead of Firefox. And while Firefox is cheating the usage numbers by fetching pages ahead and other features like this: Chrome delivers. Some time ago there was no comparison between the two. Now Chrome has something more (the news is quite old) yet Firefox can't push the JS compiler yet. By the time Firefox will deliver their fixes Chrome would be further away with the usability. So... there is no competition/.