Mozilla Suite slips down the back of the sofa
The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted the following article about the demise of the Mozilla Suite today:
No more Mozilla 1.8; in fact, no more Mozilla. Just Firefox.: “
In case you haven’t already heard, it’s over for Mozilla as far as future development is concerned. Oh sure, the Mozilla Foundation is going to keep maintaining the 1.7 branch, but that’s it. All future work is aimed at Firefox & Thunderbird. This was announced years ago, but it finally became final this week, and evidently some folks are (justifiably) p.o.’d at the Mozilla Foundation for not making things clearer, sooner.
(Of course, volunteers can still keep Mozilla going, and it looks like folks are trying to do just that. More news as it develops.)
I’ve used Mozilla regularly for testing my site design in the past, but I’ve always found it too bloated and unwieldy for everyday use. Still, there is no denying the superiority of the Mozilla rendering engine, especially when compared to Internet Exploder. Firefox retains the rendering power of the Gecko engine, but without the extra weight of the HTML editor, E-mail client and chat agent that weigh down the Mozilla Suite. Tools like the Web Developer Extension make Firefox a much more attractive choice, both for everyday use and for serious development work. Luckily, it seems that the end of the Mozilla suite won’t mean the end of the road for my favourite Mac browser, Camino.
March 18th, 2005 at 4:55 am
I also found Mozilla Suite full of applications I probably wouldn’t use. But ever since I discovered Firefox, I have been in love. It’s an amazing browser, much so compared to the terrible browser Internet Explorer.