Comments on: Ch-ch-ch-changes: A visual history of Firefox

Firefox has changed in several key ways over the years. We take you through some of the big interface changes from version 0.8 up to the latest release candidate of 3.5.

[walwebster]

I can cause Firefox to crash with just one window, in one simple and frequently-required move, and I'm getting pretty tired of it. If I don't find that it's fixed in 3.5, I'll be seriously -- albeit regretfully -- auditioning Opera against Safari and possibly even Chrome to replace it as my everyday browser (religious convictions have prohibited me from even considering MS's IE ever since I saw the way they treated Netscape) ...

[pennathur]

Josh Lowensohn is way behind the curve. Firefox has had tabbed browising for a loooong time. The tab icon has always been available in th eicon palette. All one has had to do is to pull it out and place it among the the other icons. URL bar keyword search too is already there (as it is in Opera). And it is far easier to add search engines in Opera and Firefox than it is in Chrome. Just right click in the search field to add an engine. Simple. No copying messy scripts and entering % for the search term as you do in Chrome. The tear off tab feature too is from Opera. And Opera of course has the most beautiful rendering among all browsers. Opera offers tiler and cascade arrangement of tabs (which can be implemented using one of those many extensions available for Firefox). And Firefox still renders v.well unlike Chrome which has trouble rendering radio buttons or html tag icons on blogs, etc.