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Mozilla VP Talks the State of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-fox-up-to dept.

lisah writes "As Firefox downloads pass the 200 million mark, people are talking about how its security features stack up against IE7 and protect against malware. Mozilla VP Mike Schroepfer told NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier that security will continue to be an issue 'for anything written in native code' but Mozilla intends to meet the challenge by including JavaScript 1.7 with the browser's 2.0 release. Schroepfer also talked about the timeline of future releases and offered just enough information to wet our whistles for 3.0."

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  1. I believe... by archcommus · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's spelled "whet." Either way the 3.0 stuff is interesting.

    1. Re:I believe... by jejones · · Score: 4, Informative

      Something "whets your appetite," and that's probably what the author intended to write. To "wet your whistle" is to moisten your dry mouth (not necessarily to slake your thirst--wetting your whistle doesn't go that far), and has nothing to do with making someone eager for anything... but maybe the author was thinking of something like

      "After a long day of coding, I like to kick back and sip an ice-cold bottle of Mozilla..."?

  2. Re:Realplayer bundling by iknowcss · · Score: 2, Informative
    No no no! Haven't you been paying attention? It's the other way around. Right on the site it says this:
    Forbes reports that RealNetworks, the creators of the (un)popular media player RealPlayer, have signed a two-year agreement with Mozilla to bundle Firefox with its software
    Not the other way around.
    --
    Life is rarely fair. Cherish the moments when there is a right answer.
  3. Re:Realplayer bundling by dvice_null · · Score: 3, Informative

    Real Player is bundled with Firefox, not the other way around.

    This just means that Firefox will get users from Real Player user base, from those who don't already use it. It doesn't mean that Firefox will from now on delivered with Real Player. It might get some bad reputation for Firefox, but on the other hand it will get some reputation for Firefox and marketing is what OSS projects are usually missing badly. All the techies should know that this doesn't affect the Firefox product quality at all and other than techies.. don't really care about it.

  4. Re:I can't wait until IE 8! by dvice_null · · Score: 2, Informative

    > we not even know for certainty that Firefox 3.0 is in the works

    Eh? You can download the nightly version of it from here:
    http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/latest-trunk/

  5. Re:Copy/paste bug STILL not fixed! Arg! by dvice_null · · Score: 3, Informative

    > Firefox also seems to be a huge memory hog,

    See this article:
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_ Firefox

    It will tell you how to recude memory usage and also points you to an extension which you can use to track down extensions that leak memory: http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/

  6. Re:Recent updates by dvice_null · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a pretty good resource for solving issues with Firefox:
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Issues_(Firefox )