[plug] Are we at 'war' with Microsoft?

[Craig Ringer]

> | Not always. I hate all operating systems and most software companies... 
> | though to different extents.
> 
> Heh.  Reminiscent of "All mail clients suck, this one just sucks less." :-)

Exactly.

> | Mozilla is a great example of a perpetually not-quite-done project.
> 
> Mozilla has come a long way in the last few years and it is undoubtedly
> one of the best web browsers around - IMHO miles better than Microsoft's
> IE in most areas. 

True. I should've been clearer - I was referring more to the mail 
component of Mozilla than the browser. Maybe thunderbird will be better, 
but I have never managed to get it to run - it's always segfaulted on me 
no matter what I do, on both my home and work systems. A build from 
source hasn't helped.

> It's speed (or lack thereof) is pretty atrocious,
> though

It is? Hadn't noticed - seriously. The only speed issues I have with 
Mozilla are related to unaccelerated RENDER on XFree86, and that's every 
text-heavy app not just Mozilla.

> but I don't think anyone has any plans on improving it since CPU
> speeds and memory capacities just keep growing.

Nobody with the skills can be bothered, I expect.

Craig Ringer

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