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A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9
SilentBob4 writes "Mad Penguin is one of the first to review the latest Mozilla Firefox release, numbered 0.9. According to the reviewer, there's a lot to be thankful for, as this release is far more stable than its earlier versions and sports some new features along with a new interface. My new all-time-favorite line: 'Look out Internet Explorer... your days have been numbered for some time now, but Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaky foundations and standing in a small warm puddle'. Nicely put."
0.8, 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999... Man, we are so close to 1.0!
'Look out Internet Explorer... your days have been numbered for some time now, but Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaky foundations and standing in a small warm puddle'
What about:
Internet Explorer, your pitiful life is soon to be ended by my completion. My mercy will allow you to die quickly and rot away. Your miserable "browser" functions is a thread against the race of the free, and you deserve the greatest and most horrible deseases known to man.
Anyway, Firefox cannot beat IE off the top rank. It's simply becaues IE comes with Windows, and no smallwited user would know that there's alternatives, at all.
Yes, the installer wasn't updated and still shows the 0.8 version number. This was brought up in the last Firefox discussion too.
which would be great if you didn't need a magnifying glass to see (or imagine!) Moz's climb.
That's what Opera's magnify feature is for. Zooming in is fun.
Actually, the new extension manager of FireFox 0.9 is supposed to solve that. Moreover, I've only seen two pieces of XPI-based spyware so far, and both of them hijacked Internet Explorer, which seemed absolutely retarded.
I think he should have said "Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaking foundations of shakiness, shaking in the shaky puddle of a warm vanilla shake that spilled on the ground because you are shaking so much."
But then again, I'm a fan of inappropriate repetition.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love all the hype, but the reviewer hasn't addressed the isse that we are ALL thinking about.
When is the next name update for the project?
Don't forget that once MS perceives a threat, they'll throw resources at it. If they think FireFox is a legitimate threat, expect some significant work on IE.
But what does MS have to fear from FireFox anyway? Is Mozilla.org going to cut into MS's lucrative browser sales division? Folks might quit paying hundreds of dollars for IE, all of a sudden?
Actually, the smartest thing MS could do is stop developing the IE browser and package FireFox (if the license would allow it, not sure if it does.) That way, you get someone to develop a major component for free, and you get to focus on core OS development. There are two options if this happens:
Slashdot headline possiblity #1:
Mozilla.org scores biggest OSS win ever- MS to bundle FireFox!
Slashdot headline possiblity #2:
Microsoft to bundle FireFox to spite tremendous outrage of open source community.
Even if it were suddenly 50/50 overnight, or 75/25 in favor of FF, sites would still make IE-compliant pages, because nobody can affort to write off 25% of the market.
I'm getting deja vu here. Where have I seen this happen before. Holy shit! Netscape 4 has risen from the dead and walks the earth. IE now is like NS4 then. Various odd things happen with the cache in SSL mode. Alpha channel and CSS support are completely broken. Now everyone has to write ugly hacks to support IE once the standards compliant site is done. What a piece of shit!