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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:Easy to solve by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't tell stuff like that... Remember, Netscape is from "evil" company, whatever such evil companies do, we should never admire them. Entire source is open? Closed/commercial part is coded by people who we know and IRC chat even? Nevermind. Its from AOL.

    Another example could be Real Networks.

    At last AOL dropped the entire browser thing. Forget that 2M even. So I hope the geeks are happy.

    In otherway, with Firefox whatever, Netscape 8 would ship instantly, usual bribes, ahem download listings/ads given to those major 10 websites and the opensource loving community would benefit too. No site with brain could reject coding for gecko which is simply web standards...

    Anyways, the evil "AOL" is gone... ;)

    ps: Its not really "flaming" your post I hope you understood.

  2. test by johnjay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This post is just a test of something to do with posting to /. and using Firefox.

  3. Re:The Popup Killer spreads the Gospel by TheHornedOne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think there are a LOT of compelling features in Mozilla. Mozilla is, IMO, the technological leader, not the follower. IE may have more users, and it may be the leader in usage, but it's simply not as good as Mozilla, IMO.

    s/Mozilla/Mac OS X/m