Firefox 1.0 is a fantastic browser. Great job Mozilla. Firefox puts Interent Explorer to shame, not only from a CSS/XHTML compliance standpoint (I am a professional Web Developer, no... not with Mozilla!), but also as far as it's fundamental usability and it's feature set. The tabbed browsing and built-in RSS linking alone make it worth downloading, and that's only the beginning of the feature list. It is now my primary browser, both when developing and when just surfing. :)
I remember in the early early days of Gecko development how utterly retarded Mozilla was. How plodingly slow development was. I have long been a user of open source, but there simply was no meaty competitor to IE, perhaps short of Opera, but that cost money, so... For years I simply never looked at Mozilla/Gecko and peaceably settled on IE.
But Firefox is a truly worthy competitor -- or supplanter, really -- of IE now. Very few (perhaps < 2%) of websites really don't work with Firefox and I always complain to the site producers to FIX IT. I rarely run IE except when I need to access these sites.
I admire Firefox for being a break-out success and I hope they continue to improve it as it will surely become a bigger and bigger target to hackers. IE's biggest flaws are its seemingly unending vulnerabilities and the less vulnerable Firefox is, the better.
This is another example (if one were needed) of fewer, motivated people, producing the greater more useful product than a much larger number of people can produce elsewhere (IE). A perfect example of the power of the web in action and a great start for sure - I use Firefox myself - but can it capture market share fast enough to overcome the hail and bullets its competitors will inevitably throw at it when they eventually wake up?
But Firefox is a truly worthy competitor -- or supplanter, really -- of IE now. Very few (perhaps < 2%) of websites really don't work with Firefox and I always complain to the site producers to FIX IT. I rarely run IE except when I need to access these sites.
I admire Firefox for being a break-out success and I hope they continue to improve it as it will surely become a bigger and bigger target to hackers. IE's biggest flaws are its seemingly unending vulnerabilities and the less vulnerable Firefox is, the better.
- The power of the motivated wins everytime
- by blackeye December 17, 2004 1:29 AM PST
- This is another example (if one were needed) of fewer, motivated people, producing the greater more useful product than a much larger number of people can produce elsewhere (IE). A perfect example of the power of the web in action and a great start for sure - I use Firefox myself - but can it capture market share fast enough to overcome the hail and bullets its competitors will inevitably throw at it when they eventually wake up?
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