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Firefox - The Platform

Posted by timothy on from the if-it-only-had-an-ssh-client dept.

Strudelkugel writes "Business 2.0 reports Firefox is becoming a problem for Microsoft. But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant. From the article: 'It all adds up to a business opportunity for startups, established software companies, and Web giants alike. Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don't stand to make money, Firefox's open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but do business on the Web.'"

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  1. Shhhh! We awe hunting wabbits... by coupland · · Score: 5, Funny

    People need to be vewy, vewy quiet, we awe hunting microsoft...

  2. Re:Shhhh! We awe hunting wabbits... by sburnett · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shouldn't that be "Mycwosoft"?

  3. Re:no, the cat HASN'T got my tongue. by Ploum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Firefox is like the third-party candidate of browsers.

    But who are the two others ?

    You must say : Firefox is the other candidate !

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  4. Re:Huh? Who isn't online yet? by WarwickRyan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be thankful. Our Doctors in the UK are still using MS-DOS 6.22 and Word Perfect.

  5. Re:let it be just a browser by DrVxD · · Score: 3, Funny

    > everybody seem to try to have it substitute his OS

    I like FireFox, but it ain't never gonna replace XEmacs as my OS of choice ;)

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  6. Re:Not firefox. Try google by toddestan · · Score: 4, Funny

    A web browser is not an operating system. I repeat a web browser is not an operating styem!

    It is if you ask Microsoft!

  7. Re:Cute by YE · · Score: 3, Funny

    The moron gave me the following reasons why ASP.NET was to be the "entlösung" to all problems...

    The Entlösung? As in "solution involving ducks"? Or "the Duck solution"? Is there a Monty Python + Holy Grail reference I'm missing here?

  8. Re:no, the cat HASN'T got my tongue. by Compact+Dick · · Score: 4, Funny
    But who are the two others ?
    Microsoft Internet Explorer and iexplore.exe.
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  9. Re:Deja Vu... by Erik+Hollensbe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll be happy doing it the old way.... ... doing my business in the bathroom.

  10. True 'nuff by stealth.c · · Score: 4, Funny

    The features it has now are just FINE. Stop adding them. We could probably even do with fewer. I am curious though. What makes you say it "isn't that great?" It's far and away better than IE (imho), and it doesn't feel as clunky as the Mozilla Suite. It does everything I want it to and for me it's been a pleasure to use. In fact I use it exclusively. What flaw am I overlooking? Is it something that only anal-retentive coders notice?

    But of course--security problems or not--almost anything is better than IE, eh? eh? ;)

  11. LOTR. Be ent-ertained. by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Entlösung? As in "solution involving ducks"? Or "the Duck solution"?

    No, it's a solution involving walking, talking trees :-)

  12. Re:Good Show, Mozilla! by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 2, Funny

    This was Bill Gates response to the Justice Department ruling... from now on, Windows does not perform illegal operations!