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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. "
Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
Who the hell are you anyway? This sounds like something out of Richard II right before he gets sodomized by the Northumbrians.
All I can say is if the eyes "are opened," that I hope they immediately have sharp sticks jabbed into them.
Here is what I found, when I searched for Mozilla.
I hope everyone can enjoy. I thought it was sweet =)
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.
I'd really love to set myself, my mother and all my friends up with Mozilla, but I just can't. Why not? It's still too big. So big, in fact, that I can't even fit it on a floppy to install on their machines. (And no, I can't just download it--they don't have Internet access.)
Good point here, honey. It would be nice to see some real innovation. Or, failing that, to see a browser that was focused on security and quality, rather that bells and whistles or obsessive execution of every little thing. A more user-centric model would also be a good thing.
Shelob
Shelob Wife of Boromir, Queen of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Play dead when stabbed by hairy-foots.
No, No, No, you got it all wrong.
Yoda: "Begun, these browser wars have."
Mace Windu: "Yoda, shut the fuck up, bitch."
Yoda: [Mumbling under breath] When let niggers in the Jedi did we?
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah - blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Blah, blah MAC blah blah blah. Blah blah; blah RULES blah blah blah blah blah...
C'mon, give us a break - Safari is effectively irrelevant to the browser wars unless Jobs has a personality tranplant and sees x86 as the future of the Mac.
On top of that, trying to pigeonhole Mozilla as an also-ran is rather ironic, coming from a Machead.
Nice troll recipe:
Take three obviously wrong bits of misinformation chosen just subtly enough that slashbots will think you don't know any better, blend in some generic advice, and garnish with a couple of technical sounding acronyms.
Let sit for a about 30 minutes, or until modded to (Score: 5, Insightful), and watch as the red-faced bots reply to your misinformation. Respond with a "YHL, YHL, HAND" at your leisure.
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It is official; gabec now confirms: AOL is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered AOL community when gabec confirmed that AOL market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all internet users. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that AOL has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. AOL is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict AOL's future. The hand writing is on the wall: AOL faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for AOL because AOL is dying. Things are looking very bad for AOL. As many of us are already aware, AOL continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that AOL has steadily declined in market share. AOL is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If AOL is to survive at all it will be among dial-up dilettante dabblers. AOL continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, AOL is dead.
Fact: AOL is dying
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