“I hate Mozilla”

Put together on October 26, 2009 3:56 pm by Dimitris
What do you think?

Well, perhaps ‘hate’ is a bit too strong a word but just as I was taking a break from work today I bumped on this.

Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo.

Mozilla Raindrop aims to become a ‘unified inbox’ for all your online activity. Now that’s hardly a new idea and way too many attempts have been made to address the issue of information overload from the constantly increasing number of sources these days.

But here’s the thing with this particular announcement. My instinctive reaction was ‘Ok, where do I download it?’ – I never do that. After having played around with many applications that proclaim to manage this and achieve that, I just don’t bother any more. Why? Because I know that in the online world it’s very difficult to deliver – especially with startups offering early versions. I’ll usually wait for the early-adopters to weed out the wheat from the chaff. So, unless it’s a friend asking me to test his product or idea, ‘uh-oh, not for me, thanks’.

But not today. Raindrop got me.

Why? Is it the excellent description of Next Web? No, you read stuff like that all the time. Is it the list of features? No, they’re worthless without a good implementation behind them. Is it the video demo? Hardly impressive (but seems on the right track). So, it must be that at least unconsciously I trust Mozilla and Mozilla Labs. From Firefox (ok, leaving its memory usage aside) to it being open-source and from experimental projects like Ubiquity to Jetpack, Mozilla is (or is expected to be) there to come up with the right ideas and deliver – and I’m happy for this. And although I’m all up for, for example, Chrome and Opera when it comes to browsers, and Gmail when it comes to email, I have to admit that Mozilla has me in its stranglehold.

Mozilla Foundation logo
Image via Wikipedia

And that’s why I hate it.

Oh, and also because Raindrop is only at version 0.1.

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