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4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

Posted by timothy on from the more-than-slightly dept.

dave writes "In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, in light of the excellent Firefox 0.8 release it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view."

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  1. Re:Lets help by Ilgaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    No! Instead put W3C logo at bottom that it complies to W3C standards completely... at bottom of slashdot..

    http://validator.w3.org/

    Wait a minute..

  2. Re:The tide is high, but are we rolling on.... by Senior+Frac · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, but each time I'm with friends and they surf, and they get popups, I show them fire(bird-fox), and tabbed browsing.

    I'm betting that Microsoft is getting customers faster than you're making friends.

  3. firefox icons by tippergore · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm using Firefox right now as a matter of fact, but I don't know where they're going with their icon designs...

    the new logo appears to be a gigantic fox humping the earth

    I wonder if that's the old IE 2 earth icon he's humping?

  4. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook by npistentis · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girlfriend voluntarily installed Firefox before I did, and told me afterwards- imagine my swell of first shock, then pride :-]

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  5. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook by karnal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kitty + microwave = boom?

    You may just spark the curiousity of a few people out here. And stay away from my kitty!

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    Karnal
  6. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook by Feztaa · · Score: 4, Funny

    No rich text controls, no pop up ads, no viruses, just pure web browsing bliss. They haven't looked back. :-)

    Man, I wish I could get my mom using firefox/thunderbird. She has a burning hatred for the word "mozilla", and I do truly mean the word, because she's been using mozilla for a few months, I just disguised it to look like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. She loves it, but she's convinced that mozilla is the devil or something.