Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On Aug 17, 9:23 pm, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I hear what you're saying, but it sounds to me a lot like "You all
> should just go home. Netscape 4 was good enough. You're wasting
> everyone's time by trying to improve."
>
> Maybe that's not your intent, but I'm having a difficult time figuring
> out what it is you think Mozilla should exist for if Netscape 4 was good
> enough.

That's not what I'm saying at all. Netscape 4 as a web browser was
prone to crashing and had too many bugs to list. If Netscape 4 was
"don't even breathe that way, lest it not crash"-grade, Firefox 3.6 is
earthquake-proof by comparison. So clearly there has been progress.
Addition of tabs I embraced instantly, no difficulty whatsoever - but
only Tab Mix Plus (I fail to remember what was the comparable add-on
for Mozilla Suite, but it was very much necessary indeed) made it
really good for me. Bookmarks ceased to exist for me, as everything
relevant is now "limboing" in open tabs (most often 50+ at a time,
before cleanup a few weeks back I was with well over 120 open tabs -
and thanks to TMP fairly well crash-proofed too). I guess what I'm
saying is, I expect things getting better under the hood but not
necessarily any surprises in the UI. The Good Old Way wins.