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Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 2.0 for Tuesday, says the Seattle PI. They give a quick recap of some of the new features, and discuss the ongoing IE vs. Fox debate." From the article: "Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated and that Microsoft introduced for the first time last week with IE7, its biggest upgrade since 2001. Analysts said IE7 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, but the big question is whether it will stem Firefox's growth at Microsoft's expense. Firefox's share of the browser market has grown to 9.8 percent of the U.S. market this month, from 2.9 percent in October 2004."
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This means it will be a lot easier to switch to other operating systems, which usually means that people stop using Microsoft software.
Oh yes, people are sticking with MS today just to use IE. [rolling eyes]. You're somewhere between clueless and moronic.
Why does anybody care about Acid2?
Acid2 is about how it deals with faulty HTML/CSS. If you write decent HTML and CSS, you'll never run into the problems that cause Acid2 to fail under Gecko.
Do you have any actual issues with Gecko's CSS which Acid2 demonstrates, or is this just a "wah wah Safari users see a pretty smiley face but I don't" pissing contest?
Opera might be better, and IE might be improved, but as long as Firefox has Adblock and the filtersetG updater, Firefox is the browser for me, my family, and anyone else that wants do do away with annoying (read all) advertising.
You mean as long as you know that you're posting to Slashdot and that you'll get modded up for saying Firefox is teh pwn0r, you'll talk about it.
Tabbed browsing is the *least* important feature of a browser IMHO. I rarely use it (actually never) because I would rather have it be in another window that I can ALT+TAB to rather than CTRL+TAB (which is always in a different spot on each keyboard I use daily).
While people are busy commenting "the Netscaping" of Symantec and McAffee, people are missing the more obvious one:
The Netscaping of Firefox.. Quite a fit, eh?
IE7 has the power and ability to burry Firefox in the ground. And I don't want lame excuses like "but Firefox has X and IE7 doesn't".
You know this doesn't matter.
Several years ago, Opera was the only modern and fast Web Browser that used and perfected the tabbed browser interface.
Opera was known as "The Tabbed Browser" for such a long time, while Mozilla users debated in their forums about the silliness of tabs.
That's the reason Opera users and developers feels that's unfair all the credit FF has. The same with mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, that you can undo closing a page, the ultra fast history cache, etc.
In fact, FF 1.0 was still a POS compared with Opera while their zealots said FF was much better because of the license. FF 1.5 was the first version usable (for a Opera user), with its fair share of extensions. FF 2.0 could be better than Opera for the first time (we must test it!), however FF has got almost 80% of its 'features specification' from Opera.
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