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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."
Do they love it because it blocks the popup and spyware ads? Or is it because you didn't show them how to do the same in IE?
"We're breaking out the ramen noodles. . . "
"Really? Is it someone's birthday?"
What, like reviving their superior version of IE for Mac or porting some of the features to Winblows? Fat chance.
Microsoft is putting all of it's efforts into "security". That is DRM, code signing and BIOS efforts that will lock out competition. Their idea of competing it to break the competitor. If they were interested in improvements, they could have fixed some of the longstanding bugs that have been used recently to blow up systems.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Designing websites with XHTML/CSS is cake for both browsers. The thing is, is that anyone can create sites, you don't have to be a developer or knowlegable in any way. How many sites are just thrown together by someone who doesn't know how to make pages cross-browser compliant... and hmm I'd say they display much better with IE most of the time.
It used to be we had to design for IE and Netscape. I saw that pose so many problems especially for intermediate and under developer/designers, hence lots of people didn't even worry about Crapscape.
If you look deep enough you can find faults with all of the browsers. (I can think of one... style="height:1px" doesn't work on HRs in Mozilla/Firefox)
Are Firefox/Opera, etc... better than IE? Probably, but 90% + of the market is on IE and it render's nearly all pages fine. Unless you are trying to use the most advanced features from the current CSS cross browser pages should be simple.
We aren't talking about something that takes a rocket scientist, though I know from the posts that many here think the average rocket scientist is even below them.
You really think Microsoft is going to throw all of their resources into one thing?
OK, there really are two things they spend money on, acquisitions and advertising. Acquisitions includes DRM. Trolling Slashdot is part of their advertising effort. Enron had piles of money too. Too bad M$ has not used it's supposedly vast resources to fix, much less improve it's third rate browser in the last two years. How's that for a clue?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Of course you can.
It's a matter of course? How obnoxious. You're trying to make me feel stupid over this. Nice way to behave. That's going to make me feel better about Firefox, isn't it? Not!
Right click the toolbar, pick customise, and put whatever you want wherever you want.
Yes, I already tried that, not being stupid. It doesn't do what I want though. I already told you how I set up my toolbars in IE. Try to duplicate that in Firefox 0.8. Oops, you can't.
and kill the Google bar because the address bar duplicates its function.
No. No, it doesn't. The Google bar does much more than just a search box.