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So, I was looking at something, which reminded me of Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation and their project to make an open source PIM that'll be both a challenger to MS Outlook and a modern-day follow-on to Lotus' late, lamented Agenda. And I was reading Mitch's blog, and I saw his entry about how he's converted over to Mozilla for his browser, and I thought about the good press Mozilla's been getting lately...
So I gave it a try.
{phht!}
I am less than whelmed.
Plug-ins don't install automatically. That's a nuisance, but I know some developers think IE's ability to use(programs from other {gasp!} developers) ActiveX controls to just seamlessly install plug-ins is Pure Evil from Planet 10. This strikes me as the usual programmer way of disdaining things that make life easier for the customer while adding any effort at all for the programmer.
But, even so... I went to CNN's web site. Saw the headline story, the derailment down in Commerce, Calif., on the very tracks I used to walk down between the Commerce train platform and Gallo Wine's LA distributorship when I worked there. Saw a link to a video clip. Cliquez-ici. Got told I needed to re-install RealPlayer, because it didn't "see" the copy already installed for IE. Downloaded, re-installed, re-loaded the page.
RealPlayer freezes.
I go to Task Manager. Kill off RealPlayer.
Things are still moving like slush in liquid helium.
Call up Task Manager again. Take a look at the Processes tab.
It's not RealPlayer that's hogging the CPU as a runaway process -- it's Mozilla, at 95% of a CPU locked at 100%.
I shut down Mozilla.
Still sludge.
Mozilla-the-app is gone, but Mozilla-the-process is still 95%+.
{le sigh}
Kill the process, uninstall Mozilla. I'm sorry, an app that refuses to actually stop when I tell it to just offends me.
Slogan of the day: "Open Source: Still Worth Every Penny You Pay!"
So I gave it a try.
{phht!}
I am less than whelmed.
Plug-ins don't install automatically. That's a nuisance, but I know some developers think IE's ability to use
But, even so... I went to CNN's web site. Saw the headline story, the derailment down in Commerce, Calif., on the very tracks I used to walk down between the Commerce train platform and Gallo Wine's LA distributorship when I worked there. Saw a link to a video clip. Cliquez-ici. Got told I needed to re-install RealPlayer, because it didn't "see" the copy already installed for IE. Downloaded, re-installed, re-loaded the page.
RealPlayer freezes.
I go to Task Manager. Kill off RealPlayer.
Things are still moving like slush in liquid helium.
Call up Task Manager again. Take a look at the Processes tab.
It's not RealPlayer that's hogging the CPU as a runaway process -- it's Mozilla, at 95% of a CPU locked at 100%.
I shut down Mozilla.
Still sludge.
Mozilla-the-app is gone, but Mozilla-the-process is still 95%+.
{le sigh}
Kill the process, uninstall Mozilla. I'm sorry, an app that refuses to actually stop when I tell it to just offends me.
Slogan of the day: "Open Source: Still Worth Every Penny You Pay!"
