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IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the abandoning-your-own-child dept.

wellington writes "Scott Berkun (who worked on UI design for Internet Explorer 1.0 thru 5.0) talked about why he switched to Firefox. In addition to five reasons why he switched, Scott also detailed five UI flaws in Firefox."

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  1. Digg.com by Hergio · · Score: 1, Troll

    This story has been on DIGG.COM for the past day and a half. The link is here. You gotta try Digg.com out. Seriously, I love my Slashdot, but the stories on digg are fresher, faster, and the users pick what gets on the site.

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  2. Summary of Complaints by MBraynard · · Score: 0, Troll
    They read pretty lame and sound like the guy doesn't know how to use the browser. If you look at the carefully you can see they are entirely fluff.

    IE is a ghetto. Well... I don't know what that means and he doesn't explain it. Bugs in IE? Like what?

    Bookmarks Work. Here he rags on the favorites in IE. I don't undrstand - he says they are a sad, forgotten place - but I have mine organized and use them daily.

    IE lacks quality and polish. This sounds just like the first complaint. FF is 'smooth, reliable, and clean?

    FF is a mainstream product - and IE isn't?. I don't get that as a reason to switch from IE to FF.

    Security isn't annoying. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. You realize that you can turn these security warnings off.

    It's not a very well thoughtout piece overall.

  3. Re:UI suggestion by justforaday · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's great! Now my browser is opening itself up to http://www.wisp2005.com/, http://www.url2.com/, http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/GME/URL3.HTML, [not found], and http://wiki.zope.jp/URLn. Got any other bright ideas, mister?

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