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Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla

Posted by michael on from the lizard-power dept.

Aglassis writes "This Ars Technica review gives mozilla 1.0 an overall score of 7/10 (9 for Gecko and 6 for the browser). The major detractor was the user interface, since it didn't feel like a Windows application. This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL. Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over."

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  1. fp ! by james3v · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi ac, how's it going? well, just wanted to see what you were up to. i'll give you a call later after work. see ya! (don't mark me down, please?)

  2. Well said, good review, right on the nose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... nuff said. IE6 is fast, stable, compliant, and easy to use. There are holes in NS, Mozilla, and Konk, and there will be holes in software until the end of time... it just is impossible to QnA software to take into account every possible error/attack/exploit. MS is lax on their OS security, agreed, but they do patch it and they work to make it better with every release. Linux is secure, but the software hasn't gotten significanlty better in years and it's always playing catch up with Mac and MS... no reason to switch, nothing to see here.

    The only hope Linux has at this point (which is sad given how useless Linux is for a power home user) is the cost of licensing for MS software...

  3. Just to nitpick (OT) by Tokerat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I paid $3000 for my Mac system (Extra video card for dual head display, + other things). That was in 1997. It's right here, still runnng the latest apps today.

    Macs dont' go obsolete as fast as your x86/video card/RAM special hyped-up latest thing of the week.

    Oh, and our OS doesnt' suck (well, neither does yours if you use a *NIX...)

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