Firefox Community, Sickly Out of Control

darlingbuddy writes "After users started reporting Firefox's 150 million+ downloads, this article mentions why it's a bad move on the community's part. The author writes, "I'm proud of the community that pitched in enough donations for Firefox to get a full-page advertisement in The New York Times print edition, and I'm delighted to see them think of creative ideas for promotion, but reporting total downloads every so often and immaturely degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous. The thing with these numbers is that they are misleading at best, and the only thing they accomplish is immature fanboyism. It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox with its extensive collection of extensions and ability to support qualified web standards, but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?"

Comments

Standards Conformance

[gowen]

While on the subject of standards, why did TFA not reach the standard of "competent"? And why don't slashdot editors seem to have any quality standards whatsoever?
Truly a terrible, content free, vacuous, badly-written article.

Can I have those two minutes of my life back please?

And that article was called a "column"

[unborracho]

What a sad excuse for an article on Slashdot. The column is not well written at all and points out facts that should be blatantly obvious to anyone that has ever downloaded FireFox before. 150 Million Downloads != 150 Million FireFox users, just like 1 Million World of Warcraft subscribers != 1 Million players online at once.

Can slashdot editors please refrain from posting "columns" which should really just be blogs that we can ignore?