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Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues
adamsmith_uk writes "For the first time in three years something has happened in browser land. In fact, major events have started happening at a breathtaking pace. Time for a long overview that tells the whole story. "
In the beginning...
In the beginning was the review, and it was OK. It used Titles for Everything, and as such was a Trailblazer in some ways. It quickly became Old and strangely played the role of The Great Distractor.
The Players
This is Part 2
Part the Third
There is a great deal of discussion about browsers. Some of it makes Good Sense, but sadly much of it Does Not. There is a War. That much is certain, but
Who Will Reign Victorious
Will the Aged Dragon obtain the Dentures of Power and regain the Throne of Browser Supremacy or will his son the Flaming Sparrow recently renamed the Songbird of Fire throw down the Gauntlet of "Bring it on"? Only one thing is certain.
The Reviewer is unsure
Finis
"I agree. Mozilla shows great promise, and with a detailed roadmap (which they are following quite well) they will be better than Explorer, and probably soon. Go Mozilla!"
Uh....I think you misspelled "Me too". -1, AOL User.
I confess I didn't finish it, but after I got the part about web standards being complicated I had to quit.
Firebird rocks the hell out of IE any dya.
I thought the browser WAS the os? :P
User: Browser? What's a browser?
Web guy: A browser is the application---er, software program---that you use to view web pages on the Internet.
User: Oh. How about them Mets?
<a href="http://www.joblessjimmy.com">Work is dumb and so is Jobless Jimmy.</a>
A few years ago, in London, during the Internet silly season, somebody had the bright idea of gathering sysadmins and web developers together and plying them with free beer. This happened on the first Tuesday of each month for about a year or so. So I went to Techie Tuesday, as it was known, once. Of course the majority of the punters were recruiters who had rapidly changed into sweatshirts on their way up west from the city. There was the odd nerd, though. After some deeply unfulfilling chit-chat with one such low-life, I was asked the question 'So, what is your favourite browser'. I left and never went back.
Come on, that is just a stupid thing to do.
Firebird is a 6MB download, compared to a 60MB download for IE, I'd say that's a supermodel at a fat camp.
Mike
Ok - somebody's had a little too much oat bran.
Calm down. Take a breath.
We can draw analogies to specific items (such as I did, about the USSR propoganda), without generalizing the whole thing.
If I had said "Microsoft is like the Nazi party - they round up Linux users and rip out their teeth while not giving them painkiller" - that would have been innappropriate and silly.
If I had said "Microsoft is like the Nazi party - they make sure that nobody is elected except for their own, and if they can't buy them out, they push them out of existance" - that might have been a bit overkill and harsh, but it would have been no less wrong.
So - take a breath. There you go - In goes the sunshine, and Out goes the rainclouds. There - don't we feel better?
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances
IE typically causes problems with that many instances too. The simplest solution to the problem is to find porn sites that don't have so many popups.
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!
Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances, each with 3 to 5 tabs, and some tabs are closed.
Yeah, I had similar problems with my old '91 Sentra. When towing six elephants, there was serious buffetting at transonic speeds. They should really get some aero engineers to look at that.
I'm in the exact same situation. Our current record for Ad-aware items found on a customers computer is 3,796. Seriously. This was on a Sony Vaio in a family with 5 teenagers. Every file-sharing program and cute little computer "enhancement" program known to man had been installed on the computer. Bonzi Buddy, Hotbar, and Comet Cursor were among, but far from the worst of the offenders. On bootup there were over 50 popups and it wasn't even connected to the network yet! They also had 6 different popup blockers installed, none of which were doing a damn thing. We removed every single one of those items, installed Mozilla, taught them the meanings of the words spyware, adware, malware, and how not to click on every button constantly like a burn patient on a morphine drip, and we haven't heard from them since.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
I thought the browser WAS the os?
Yup, and it comes with mail and news reading too. Oh wait, that's Emacs.
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
Attack of the Mozilla Clones!?!
Ok, ok, I'll go hide in a corner now...
-B
That must make Opera Kate Moss.
-- It's a floor wax.
-- It's a dessert topping.
-- It's a floor wax!
-- It's a dessert topping!
(third voice)
-- It's a floor wax, a dessert topping, a web browser, and an application platform!
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
I wonder if there comes a point in bad markup when "Content-type: text/html;" should be considered a MIME-type error. :)
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
how long until
Microsoft's not FAT either. It's mostly NTFS nowadays.
By the time you're at 40 instances, and three tabs a piece, you should really be done .
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