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
On the contrary, I think object sharing in browser can be pretty interesting subject.
nd gave us a crappy new address bar that I seldom use
When Mozilla implemented tabs in its browser, people used to say the same.. What happened later? Can we now live without tabs?
And the new address bar is in fact, useful. Saves me effort.
@Manish and @Marc:
Sure, it autocompletes, but it’s *too* helpful. The moment I type a www, it pops up all the sites and titles, which can be a bit embarassing at times, as a large section of your browsing habits are shown to whoever’s watching it.
Search by word is good, but a brutal title and url search isn’t the way to go in my opinion. People have mixed opinions regarding the address bar. I for one don’t even use the address bar (I use vimperator, it saves me tons of space).
@Maddy,
If you mean object, you mean text, links and images, and pointing to different regions on the screen remotely.
My policy is when things are simple enough, oversimplifying it makes life complicated. Sooner or later, it’s just going to be a replacement to your chat client, and nothing else. If they wanted similar functionality, they should’ve tried to fork pidgin or an existing application that can handle voice and text, and added a pointer and url seamless sharing mechanism to that.
I also think that the algorithm should be changed a bit or they should provide more than one algorithm for awesome bar. BTW I never type www when you have history saved. Directly type the domain name and it autocompletes.
awesome bar? Bah!
now THIS is awesome!
At first, this is what I too thought because I used to have my most used sites away at just one or two characters. But now I’ve found I like the way this works, I can match part of the url and part of the title. That feature is way too good for me to do without it now.