I love Firefox.
Been using it since version 0.8.
http://www.mozilla.org
I'm using Mozilla 1.4. Should I switch? Why?
Better: www.avantbrowser.com.
And no snotty 'tude about "improperly coded" pages.
Dan
The guy is bitching that he found some bugs? Why doesn't he just report them and they'll get fixed.
zdnet, the 527 organization of the Microsoft campaign.
I use firefox and having all the available extensions make it worthwhile (not to mention IE's security has more holes than swiss cheese). My sole complaint is it is (FRACTIONALLY) slower than IE despite maximizing the code for speed.
> I haven’t seen ANYONE criticize Firefox.
Not surprising. There isn't a lot to complain about.
I've only had two problems, and 1.0PR fixed one of them.
The other (DNS timeouts) may be peculiar to my situation,
and is just an annoyance and not a barrier to use.
About once a month I have to use some secure site or
other that is hard-coded to use MSIE. Big deal. It's not
like we have to uninstall MSIE to use the fox.
I've been using it for six months and I love it!
Just like the much-ballyhooed open office software, which coughed up a whole bunch of #NAME's when trying to digest my Excel 97 spreadsheet. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, there's no free lunch, and read the fine print.
Hmm--so that's why she called me the other day.
Let's see...ZDnet is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft detests every competitor to their repulsively-insecure malware.
Draw your own conclusions.
Ignoring IE's non-standard features? You mean like the virus propagation mechanism otherwise known as Active-X? Or maybe it's IE's lack of a popup blocker? Possibly the author is referring to IE's tendency to render various fonts and graphics in a completely random fashion.
It is Mozilla's (and hence Firefox's) complete lack of these "features" that make it so attractive. I am currently typing this in on a built-from-source Firefox browser. I left IE (and winderz) behind years ago and don't plan on looking back, thanks much.
The author is disingenuous when he says the Firefox browser share is small. Maybe he should include Mozilla as a whole. I think his argument would be much different.
It is fast, period. Fire up MS Internet Explorer and compare. You can feel your whiskers grow on IE.
I switched to Firefox two months ago. Since then, the internet's been a lot easier to brose, I've lost weight, cured acne and the common cold, greatly improved my skills at Texas Hold 'em, the Red Sox have won the World Series, and Bush defeated Kerry! Thanks Firefox!
And it kicks Internet Explorer's @$$. ;-)
Crashes using Acrobat which makes it useless.
Firefox is better than mozilla.. but its over rated in so many ways.. as is safari. Some web developers are using "web standards" as a way to try and make them selves feel superior.
Web standards, safari and want not are okay.. but its the browser wars all over again instead of uniting things. I do believe that these things are steps forward, but are not the end all to be all.
Throw a rock -- hit a critic.