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Firefox Losing Its Way?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wrong-side-of-the-bed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has a recap on Firefox 2.0 and its shortcomings. Aside from the technical aspects, the article raises some good questions about the Firefox 'community,' it's future, and what it's goals are at the end of the day. Their conclusion? Firefox 1.5 was a much better open-source project/community model than 2.0 ever will be, and that 'It seems Firefox has lost its way somewhere along the passage to fame.'"

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  1. JESUS FRACKING CHRIST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IT'S is a contraction for IT IS motherfrackers! How fracking hard is that to understand!?

    1. Re:JESUS FRACKING CHRIST by codegen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning

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      Atlas stands on the earth and carries the celestial sphere on his shoulders.
    2. Re:JESUS FRACKING CHRIST by Morky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oh my gods. You don't know where the frack frack comes from?

    3. Re:JESUS FRACKING CHRIST by westlake · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      IT'S is a contraction for IT IS motherfrackers! How fracking hard is that to understand!?

      Very hard.

      It is, after all, arguably the most common grammatical error in the English language.

      The meaning is always clear in context and there is little real incentive to correct it. Nor will you get any thanks for pointing it out.

  2. Its. Without an apostrophe. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Same annoying mistake 3 f@cking times in the summary. Do the editors do anything around here other than randomly accept posts?

  3. Learn to spell "its" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spelling matters.

  4. Re:Learn To Cuss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ITS and IT'S *are* real words however, and they're only THREE LETTERS LONG. How much mental effort is required to figure out the difference between IT IS and the possessive ITS? Oh, and just so you don't overexert that miniscule brain of yours while you breathe heavily through your pig-like nose, "frack" is an expletive used on a TV show, and I spelled it correctly.

  5. Re:No, it's not "losing its way" by Saint+Stephen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ie7 crashes all the time -- I just upgraded to it. It constantly crashes, several times in a few hours.

  6. Re:Learn To Cuss by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Don't look now... but "frack" isn't even a real word... did somebody pee in your sixth cup of coffee this morning or what?

    Just because it isn't real doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Kind of like the square root of -1.

    • frack - from Battlestar Galactica. Similar meaning to "fuck", but its use by children in a 1978 TV show suggests that it carries no more social weight than "rats" or "darn" within the universe of the show.


    LK
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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  7. It's not "It's" by bidmead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please, guys, this is starting to drive me nutty. The problem's endemic on the Web, but this particular post has it in Spades.

    "It's" when it's a contraction of "it is".

    "Its" when it's a possessive.

    Was that so tough?

    Thank you.

    --
    Chris