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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:I'm still lost by re-Verse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I must add my 2 cents here.

    Why not add an "advanced options" chevron for the things you think only 2% of users use?

    In the location bar type about:config
    voila - every option that you could ever want - all the ones from Mozilla, etc.

  2. Wrong. See RFC 1738 by Chaltek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seems like a troll, but I'll bite.
    While the original HTTP RFC did not include user:pass@domain syntax, the URL RFC 1738 does.

  3. Re:Insightful my ass, mod "-1, Didn't Read Comment by seasleepy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And if you want an explanation of what all the about:config stuff means, you could just download Preferential and that'd take care of that just fine.