Bugs

The darned import of contacts into Thunderbird from Outlook still chokes aplenty - bug which has been with Thunderbird for years - but clearly fixing it is not sexy enough work for the great minds at Mozilla. Why don't they give the money they receive to some other group of people ready to do all that boring - but desperately necessary work of building useful software.

Oh - and if they want a new project - why don't they work on a calendar and contacts server to go with Thunderbird and Lightning - capable of seamlessly syncing few thousand appointments over a slow link?

Oh, sorry, I forgot - they are only capable of copying whatever fad the other big IT companies are into right this minute.

What is it with Mozilla?

They have this habit of coming up with an open source version of a good idea years after it has left the station.

First mobile firefox was years too late, now this.

As another poster said why don't they just concentrate on making their core product better?

have they learned nothing from the past?

Remind me why this isn't the same colossal mistake Microsoft made embedding Internet Explorer so deeply in the OS?

I want my net facing apps as strongly isolated from my local system as possible and that's a hell of a lot quicker and easier to get right if they're just apps, not parts of the OS. Mozzila will just end up reinventing the OS+Browser, so I suggest they just work on the browser part, let someone else deal with the OS layer.