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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. "
The Mozilla Project is in serious trouble. It has been ready for prime time for over a year now, but except for an increasingly meaningless string of new releases nothing seems to happen.
Nothing seems to happen? Hello, what of all these features:
It's really funny that they'd over look this stuff, since they bitch and moan about how bad IE is (and will be for another 6 years). They clearly don't understand the power of Open Source.
Was the guy that wrote that article paid by the word? It sure reads like it. And it claims to tell the whole story, but it didn't. Pile of poo.
Although I'm happy with my current browser (opera) there are many ways in which it could be improved.
1. Improved support for windows. The Linux version of opera is quite stable but the windows version repeatedly crashes, especially when I got to pages that have perl in them.
2. popup supression. Popups have become one of my least favourite things about the internet. If the browser could suppress ANY pages that use java to create popups then the problem could be solved at a stroke.
3. Speed. Opera is far more usable than IE but it is much slower at rendering large pages. This can be speeded up if I remove java but this is more of a hack than a proper solution.
4. improved caching. The browser could cache all links on a page regardless of whether you visit them or not. This would make surfing a lot quicker even when you are using analogue.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Add to this the fact that IE already supports pop-up prevention (lock down the Internet zone, and open up only the trusted sites where you allow scripting).
You quitting proves that the karma kap worked. The most annoying of the whores shut up. --CmdrTaco