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Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-orc-and-pie dept.

Tomas wrote to mention an article up on XYZ Computing discussing what is shaping up to be another round of the Browser Wars. From the article: "To anyone that has been following the Window's browser news lately, it is apparent that the stage is set for another browser war. Last experienced during the nineties, companies are fighting over which program consumers use to view the internet. For the average computer user this is a very good thing as it should drastically improve browser performance in a short period of time."

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  1. Re:stop the boogaloo madness! by saladami · · Score: 3, Funny

    "browser wars 2: the legend of curly's gold" is more acceptable.

  2. BROWSER WARS IV - A New Hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is a period of civil war.
    Mozilla spaceships, striking
    from a hidden base, have won
    their first victory against
    the evil Microsoft Empire.

    During the battle, Mozilla
    spies managed to steal secret
    plans to the Empire's
    ultimate weapon, INTERNET
    EXPLORER 7, an armored web
    browser with enough power to
    destroy an entire website.

    Pursued by the Empire's
    sinister agents, Firefox users
    race home aboard their
    browser, custodian of the
    web standards that can save
    their people and restore
    freedom to the web....

  3. a better idea for tabbed browsing by mimayin · · Score: 2, Funny

    To win the browser war, budding browser development teams should implement my new idea for tabbed browsing.

    The browser should let you access all the paid sites you want, and put all the charges on a tab. This can then be paid off at the end of the month. I'd switch to running IE under Wine (is that even possible?) if M$ brought this feature out.

    SUPPORT TABBED BROWSING!!

  4. I was totally ignorant by ArmorFiend · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never heard of this "firefox" thing before now. I had had no idea what tabs were before now. Its interesting to learn that this "Internet Explorer" isn't the only internet out there. I'm glad there's a website like this "Slashdot" to tell us these things - thank you Slashdot!

  5. BROWSER WARS by mtrisk · · Score: 5, Funny
    BROWSER WARS
    EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE

    It is a period of civil war. Open Source spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Microsoft Empire.

    During the battle, Mozilla spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the INTERNET EXPLORER 7, a tabbed browser with enough market share to destroy the entire open source movement.

    Pursued by Microsoft's sinister agents, BEN GOODGER races races home aboard his starship, custodian of the stolen code that can save his project and restore freedom (both libre and beer) to the internet...
    --

    Without a proper flamewar, Anonymous was undecided on what shell to run.
  6. Stock market by bigberk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call up your broker, buy 1,000 shares FFOX!!

  7. Browser performance? by TwistedSpring · · Score: 3, Funny

    drastically improve browser performance

    I hope so. I only get 12 FPS with my current browser and that's not good enough.