Hilarity in the browser discussion at slashdot

The [Mozilla] Project needs to get its act together, though. No more rehearsing for the Navel Gazing Split Personality Idiot Savant role. No more antique cars stuffed with vague X-technologies nobody understands anyway. And no, not even one web standard. The Project should put Mozilla on a strict diet and star it as the Viable Alternative to the Senile Evil Dinosaur Usurper in the epic multimedial co-production "Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues".

If the Project does so, it has a future. If it doesn't, it will sink further into obscurity and silly names.

The First response (by sweeney37): Apparently this guys has been out of the loop. I agree the silly name changes, and change in directions hurt, (hell it confused me too), but now they are on a strict roadmap. The Firebird browser is on a strict diet, it's slicker, leaner and meaner than anything Microsoft has to offer. Even some of the biggest Windows advocates [joelonsoftware.com] have jumped on the bandwagon.

Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
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And the commentary:

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Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances

IE typically causes problems with that many instances too. The simplest solution to the problem is to find porn sites that don't have so many popups.

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Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances, each with 3 to 5 tabs, and some tabs are closed.

Yeah, I had similar problems with my old '91 Sentra. When towing six elephants, there was serious buffetting at transonic speeds. They should really get some aero engineers to look at that.