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Firefox-Based Start-Up Gets Off The Ground

Posted by Zonk on from the more-brains-make-light-work dept.

rudy_wayne writes "ZDNet is reporting that a new version of the Firefox Web browser is coming your way, but not from the Mozilla Foundation. 'When we launch our own services, in about a month or so, we'll be looking to offer the must-have companion to Firefox,' said Bart Decrem, Round Two CEO and a former staffer at the Mozilla Foundation. 'We see tremendous room for innovating on top of the Mozilla and Firefox platform, and we see ourselves as the first company outside of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that's fully dedicated to serving Firefox users.' Round Two planned a corporate launch Monday night with the promise of bringing 'a new crop of products and services that will enhance your Firefox experience.'"

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  1. Wow! Three cheers for MSIE!!! by ChaosMt · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is the best news they've had in quite a long time.

    Point: I don't think there's enough room in the market for competition amongst minor players to be successful. Yet another win for overlords.

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  2. Sell Your Business! by milimetric · · Score: 0, Troll

    Quickly, before it's too late and before everyone else reads /.

    Seriously, I don't care what you're selling, I'm not buying it. On principle alone. Firefox is free. If I want a feature, I'll code it up myself. I'm sure your product is nice but it's like selling ice to an eskimo.

  3. Re:The unbeatable punch by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll
    Let's wait till release before passing judgement on a product.
    Bwhahahahaha! How long have you been waiting for LongInTheToothHorn?
    As for .Net, I beg to disagree with your comments. The .Net IDE is substantially robust, and not least because it automates many of the mundane tasks we have gotten used to (e.g. opening/maintaining a db connect, window class, etc.) allowing someone to focus on the real problems at hand.
    Its a bloated, bug-filled piece of shit. we've got one box that runs a dot.net app, and every time it runs, we've got to update it. Every. Fucking. Day.

    Guess .net is the antithesis of "write once, run anywhere", more like "write-run-write-run-write-run".

    All that the .net ide is going to do is give the ability to more "so-called" programmers to generate more awful code. Like FlashMX did for [tt]he web.

  4. Re:Open Source Competition by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see. Logging into my new shiny LexisNexis db. Pooling data on Tim Browse 9263....

    So if I know your name, where you live and I know that you ordered that she-male bride catalog, then I can't argue with you over the internet?

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