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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. The by Konster · · Score: 1, Troll

    The time between a critical flaw and a patch to fix it is too great. IE7 has been patched more than FF2.0, and this is not a good thing.

    There hasn't been a *single* patch to fix flaws in FF2. Not. A. Single. One.

    This isn't a troll, so please don't mode me down. When MS leads the way for browser security, things are very, very wrong for FF.

    I'm an XP user partly by choice, but when I seriously consider running FF2 under XP via a VM in Linux just to get some security, something is wrong.

  2. Re:Personally, I wish that they would fix the bug by weirdguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thats not a bug with firefox, it's the way windows shuts down programs when its shutting down that make it think its crashed.