MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE

brightertimes writes "That's right folks, Slate (Microsoft's on-line magazine) recently printed an article enitled "Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer.""

Comments

Re:Interesting way to see it

[stratjakt]

Try this.

Find someone who uses a computer, but isn't necessarily a nerd. Replace their IE with Firefox, don't say a word.

Watch... 10:1 says they get pissed off, ask who "
"fucked up" their computer, and how to put it back to the way it was.

I use Firefox, and can put up with its quirks. Most regular folks will find its braindead UI choices annoying. They don't know about security issues or dhtml, they just know this other browser is fucked up.

For instance:
- the default "theme" looks stupid, and without some experience, it's hard to figure out what the icons are supposed to be. Especially the Add Tab and "Display the progress of downloads" (what the fuck do I need that on the toolbar for anyways?)

- the google bar is about .25 of an inch long, and you cant drag/stretch it. Braindead and useless, unless I want to google something 20 characters or less.

And some real usability bugs:
- Some times it stops resolving hosts, for no reason. I'll click a link and it'll say "xxxxx cannot be found". Same if I type in an address. At this point it must be shut down and restarted.

- I've installed Flash Player about 20 times, and some sites still ask for it.

IE is not just ubiquitious, it is popular, because it frankly works.

MS sucks

[jjriggs]

Whoever wrote that article is an ass. He called me a propeller-head geek. Down with Microsoft.