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Firefox - The Platform
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.'"
Anything to attack Microsoft is good!
Go firefox!
Let's see:
Pro firefox - ding!
Anti MS - ding!
Good slashdot post! :)
Friends don't let Friends use Internet Explorer.
all-day long
Hum.. ever tried to look at slashdot's source to see if it's valid?
Then.. why are you posting here? You should boycott it too!
Have you ever thought that by posting on slashdot, you just helped them in creating some unvalid code?
Hum.. I think you should stick to the w3c website and live with it. Other sites are just.. irrelevant for you.
We don't care about the download size, damnit. It's bloated yes, because it uses shitloads of memory. There are huge memory leaks in there and everyone just pretends they ain't there. I guess it's ain't cool to say that. Bah...
Ever tried to load say a 12 mb html file with huge combobox or something in firefox (yeah i have a client silly enough to require me to do that, because clicking next is tedious...) ? once the file is processed, (10 minutes later) you end up with about 300 megs taken by firefox. And this memory just stays there if you go to say google and load small pages after that. And it's not just huge pages like that, everyone knows that with maybe 10 table, firefox will take between 70 and 100 megs of ram. I've been a big big supporter of mozilla, but i'm really annoyed that they're more concerned about hitting 1.0 than fixing the obvious and embarrasing bugs. I thought a 1.0 release meant stable as hell in oss world, but eveything goes away those days...
Now go on, mod me as troll, i ain't cool.
Dunno, probably a lot of people who like Office, Photoshop, applications they've heard of...
People don't buy stick shifts anymore because automatics have reached a point where stick shift users are a fringe group who like the "grit" of performing the action. Automatics, in general use, have just as good or better gas mileage these days as their manual counterparts.
Do you see where I'm going here? No one likes RMS blabbering on about how software needs to be free, but everyone argues that OSS is better because of this and that and the reality is that in plenty of cases, the commercial counter-parts are arguably better. Anyone who's messed with the guts of X11 knows this much better than I - I walked away from that mess about as quickly as it took to execute 'less' on a piece of source code.
X11 is a mess and it's progression shows it.
Free Software has nothing to do with quality.
Don't worry, humans are gearing up for voluntary self-regulation in this regard via a combination of nukes and voting Bush into office.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.