Mitch Kapor Warns Against Firefox Gloating

An anonymous reader writes "Mitch Kapor, Lotus co-founder and president and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, says open-source advocates should be relatively cautious and avoid making claims and predictions despite the huge success of Firefox. He also briefly touches on Chandler in a ZDNet interview. Chandler is OSAF's personal information manager which will offer e-mail, calendaring, address and task management. The goal for Chandler, Kapor says, is to make it as successful and popular as Firefox."

Comments

Re:I agree.

[mopslik]

Not to be a pain, really, but...

Firefox doesn't allow me to open multiple browser windows by using a bound keyboard shortcut (CTRL+ALT+E)

Ctrl-N works fine in my FF 1.0 here...

Just as MSIE has the annoying, hard-to-get-rid-of "Links" folder in its Favorites menu, Firefox has its own required "Bookmark" directory which it will not let you delete.

If this is the case, then FF and IE are on equal footing, wouldn't you say?

Firefox still renders many pages oddly.

I'll give you this one, but only to an extent. Unless I'm visiting some random "kewl d00d" FrontPage-generated GeoCities page, I have no troubles with any of the sites I use on a regular basis. Not my bank, not online merchants, not any major news site. The only one close to troublesome is /. itself, and someone had an AdBlock solution posted somewhere that has fixed it for me.

I've got buttons on my Logitech keyboard...

I can't argue that off-hand, so in all, I give you 1 1/2 points for IE, and 2 1/2 for FF. Start talking about security and whatnot, however, and I think that FF will easily pull ahead.

Re:I agree.

[sepluv]

1) Ctrl+N works for me. 2) There's one called "Personal Toolbar Folder" not "Bookmark" though; but you can rename it to whatever you like or just ignore it. File it as a bug if it annoys you that much. 3) Not for me. URIs please... 4) Try changing the buttons to launch Firefox in the drivers somewhere.