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It is always interesting to see the 'Emacs effect'. I fell under this spell myself with emacs back in the day. It slowly assimilated all of the applications that I used, until I checked email with it (GNUS), read news with it, ran my shell within it, and washed my dishes with it.
I see a little of this happening with two other guys on the block. When you look at Mozilla, you are definitely starting to see a platform. It isn't "just a browser". You have email, calendar, address book, FTP client, Chat client, weather watcher, etc etc.
Then there is Eclipse, which mimics Emacs, in the sense that its birth was from an IDE. Although the plugins seem to be mainly around development, they are growing and growing into other areas.
When will see Mozilla Eclipse (the mozilla extension for eclipse) or Eclipse Mozilla (the eclipse plugin for mozilla). Then there will be one tool to rule them all ;)
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