Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox

didde writes "It seems like our friends in Redmond are quite happy about IE. According to this article, they won't be updating it until Longhorn. My favorite quote would be [We have a very, very innovative set of capabilities that we're putting in the next version. And in the meantime it's an extensible platform, and there will be a set of extensions that Microsoft does as well as others.] Oh boy, are they actually working side by side with the virusmakers and phishers?" That just gives the MozBoys a year head start.

Comments

Re:Some other famous quotes...

[dynamo_mikey]

This is very tangential to the subject, but I'll ask anyway. America fought a two-fronted war very successfully in WWII. How come the "two-fronted war" is so obviously dumb when Germany did it? I think it's as much 20/20 hindsight as anything else.

Nonetheless, that was an amusing post.

-dynamo

Re:We're heard this line before

[eno2001]

"Came on the desktop"? Eww!!! ;P

(I kid because I love. I use Linux pretty much exclusively at home)

Link Segfaults Firefox

[nbritton]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdigital/1658199/
I f I click on that link in firefox it segfaults
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Corrupt JPEG data: 1140 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041230 Firefox/1.0
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Build platform
target
i386-unknown-freebsd5.3

Build tools
Compiler Version Compiler flags
cc gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -O -pipe -march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe
c++ gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -O -pipe -march=pentium2 -O2 -fshort-wchar -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--enable-crypto --disable-tests --disable-mailnews --disable-composer --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-official-branding --prefix=/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/fake --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --with-system-jpeg=/usr/local --with-system-zlib --with-system-png=/usr/local --with-system-mng=/usr/local --without-system-nspr --with-gssapi=/usr --with-pthreads --disable-auto-deps --disable-bidi --disable-dtd-debug --disable-jsd --disable-ldap --disable-pedantic --disable-profilesharing --disable-installer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-image-decoders=png,gif,jpeg,bmp --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref, transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspecto r,p3p,gnomevfs --disable-debug --enable-optimize=-O2 --enable-strip --disable-logging --enable-xft --disable-gnomevfs
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firefox-1.0_6,1
j peg-6b_3
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FreeBSD spectra.intranet 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #16: Fri Dec 24 04:47:03 CST 2004 nbritton@spectra.intranet:/usr/src/sys/i386/compil e/SPECTRA i386
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Re:We're heard this line before

[iamacat]

Wow, that's even worse than I remembered. Ctrl-C doesn't do much good in a terminal window, so are you saying you can actually highlight a command in xterm, try to paste it with Ctrl-V into your kde-based irc window and instead share your juicy love letter with the whole Internet? Did you ever actually try to rationalize it to non-Linux users?

As for sendmail.cf, various cron jobs/crashed editors/other programs send you e-mail that you need to access with "mail" command or some other spool-based reader. Why shouldn't you see all your e-mail at the same time?

Well, you can explain away one case, but Linux is just littered with inconsistencies that can only be ironed out by commercial distributions with very undemocratic contribution policy. One scrollbar slides down one step if clicked at the bottom. Another one scrolls all the way to the bottom in the same situation. There are endless configuration files in /etc that control very essential facilities like getting online with PPP or syncing calendar on a Palm. There are various python thingies to edit some of them, but if user A edits in with a gnome control panel and then another one opens it in KDE, it gets mangled and must be fixed by hand. In RH8, if you just put a space in PPP password, you get a syntax error with a script line number the next time you open the config tool.

I don't know how far along are Lindows/Linspire and Java desktop at overcoming these problems for new users. But definitely windows and its typical applications are not as inconsistent for simple things and in this case the complexity is annoying rather than stimulating for people with decent IQ.