Some would argue that Firefox was superior to IE6 but there were features in IE6 that Ff couldn't compete with.
When IE7 was introduced, MS removed those features and now, IE8 is yet another step backward.
My current favorite feature of IE8 is its complete inability to parse XML files produced with Office 2007....I mean.....seriously? Who the hell was the moron at MS that didn't see that?
I’ve used Firefox since version 2, along with Thunderbird E-mail and like them both much more than Microsoft’s offerings.
Something has been happening with Firefox that has me puzzled however. It devours memory. I launched it this morning at 0600 and it’s now reading 744 megabytes memory usage. I have to close it and relaunch several times a day as when it reaches 1 GB or more, everything else slows down.
I suspect it’s a plug in, not Firefox, but I have yet to discover which plug in it is.
Jack
Maybe against IE 8 FF is the superior browser by far but you have to be kidding me that FireFox, a browser I use extensivly, being by far superior. In fact it’s the most buggiest, crash ready, memory leaking, web page mis-rendering browser I use. IE7 just happens to be slower than FF in most tasks but as far as widespread support and memory usage IE7 owns FireFox 3.0.1 and lower.
Just dropping this recent note:
Firefox 3.5 RC1 delayed a bit again
Earlier notes from ZDNET:
Firefox 3.1 may become Firefox 3.5And of course that did happen.
Shiretoko to be named Firefox 3.5
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As recently proposed, the version number of the Shiretoko project will be changed to Firefox 3.5 before the upcoming fourth beta release. The process of changing the version number will have an effect on many systems, and will be co-ordinated by Sam Sidler
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