And, having been a big supporter (and occasional patch coder, tester) of Mozilla and Firefox/Thunderbird over the years, I have extremely mixed feelings about it. (I first used Mozilla's browser BEFORE Dave Hyatt invented tabs, back around release 0.4).
I may be wrong about this (I'm not a professional Software Guy). But it seems to me that the problem for Mozilla/Firefox is the architecture. (I'll ignore Thunderbird in this Talkback, but it's pretty much the same.) They've got a platform layer, Gecko, which "supports" the UI/Product layer (Firefox) like a Siamese twin: joined at the hip, you can barely touch Firefox in a MEANINGFUL way unless you do coordinated Gecko/XUL changes. (continued....)
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