The New Mozilla

[KennyR]

I like how they say "Mean and lean" for Firebird - the packed Windows archive is 6MB in size, not mean or lean. Windows and Linux users wouldn't know mean and lean if it came up and slapped them around with a wet fish.

[KennyR]

There are many different ways to take the phrase "full featured". Some accept a browser as full featured if it accepts compatible html. Some aren't happy unless it has full emulation of all IE's bugs and useless additions, password managers, flash, obscure javascript commands, java, CSS, and whatever new badly planned and poorly implemented new tricks the internet pull out to attract visitors.

12MB unextracted for a browser is not slim (not even for 2003), especially considering it's basically a glorified text viewer.

[KennyR]

The people want a browser that shows sites properly, so maybe it's wrong to blame the browser alone. Probably the blame lies more on Microsoft's shoulders and their IE monopoly.

But still...12MB? Can't someone fit nice features and standards compliency in a package that's really mean and lean?

[KennyR]

I'm running Firebird on Debian as I write this. It's not 0.7, though: the site only has x86 binaries and I can't even get a source tarball: the ftp seems to be dead at the moment (probably overloaded).