Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

I saw the concept video for Mozilla’s Aurora, but all the internet retards think that the mockup and concept is a fully working application. Essentially, from what I figure, it’s a screen sharing and voice chatting application. The bigger(and thus, more retarded) blogs than this have been calling it “The browser of the future” and bullshit like that. It’s an idea and something an interface designer did up in his/her spare time.

At the core of it, it allows one person to show the other person a webpage (yank-pasting the URL became old-tech), and communicate and share on the screen in realtime. Being the cold lonely cynic that I am, I have this to say:

Dear Mozilla,

People use your browser. I don’t swear by it or want babies with it like some people do. All browsers suck, this one comparitively sucks less(yo mutt!). Please go ahead and waste your time, implementing a product, that allows you to “share information” and “communicate”, in a more effective way. It’s the seventh product I’ve heard about this morning that claims to do the same, and I’ve not even finished my coffee.

Considering you spent a year or so between firefox 2 and 3, and gave us a crappy new address bar that I seldom use, you must have soemthing else up your sleeves. But when I’m in my mid-30s when you do release Aurora, I won’t be using it. The reason is that I’ve got hundreds of ways to communicate, share information and text and links. I’d personally prefer email or face to face (not facebook you twat).

The trouble is not your product, dearest mozilla, it’s the time. There was a time, where you couldn’t be sure wether your information would be shared, because the messenger boy got naughty with the carrier pigeon, or when you use yahoo messenger 2.0 or something like that.

But now, we’ve got ways to share all kinds of basic data, and pretty optimized methods too (Though I’d anyday pick carrier pigeon over live messenger), and trying to reinvent the wheel will just land you in a patent lawsuit. I’m not trying to curb your imagination or killing your groove, I’m just saying: Don’t waste your time fixing something that works fine.

And I’m also saying: Screw you.

Love,
Me