a snippet from the Firebird development charter :
Firebird began because a group of people who used to work on the Netscape browser releases wanted to show the world what a browser would look like if it were developed using the flexible Gecko layout engine and XPFE, but without the constraints of commercial interest and the creep of esoteric features from the developer community. Given that User Interface development is not a committee driven process, where mob rule is not useful, a more discriminating, closely directed solution was sought
After having used Firebird on & off for the past 6 months, I have now switched to it in my Linux box @ work and my Win XP @ Home. I have to say that Firebird 0.7 has indeed come a long long way (especially the GTK2 enabled build for Gnome 2) in terms of stability & functionality (the gripes in this posting - Top 11 Firebird annoyances notwithstanding)
I'm especially pleased with the Tao'ist attitude of Ben Goodger as be signs-off the Mozilla Firebird Product Development Charter with these words :
At the time of writing, Mozilla Firebird has already been very successful, scoring converts from Internet Explorer and much praise. We are not done. We have a lot of work to accomplish before we can reach 1.0. At the same time we are realistic - no product is perfect, 1.0 is not a panacea, there will still be bugs that need to be fixed, features that could work even better, and so forth. That's what 1.5s and 2.0s are for. Nonetheless we believe that when we hit 1.0 we will have achieved our original stated goal - to be the best browser, bar non
An attitude like this would certainly go a long way in making Firebird the best browser in town !
Comments