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Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers
An anonymous reader points out an interview with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard, regarding the future of Firefox and how it affects other browsers. It's an Austrian site, so forgive the comma abuse. From derStandard:
"It's sort of interesting though, part of our strategy is to make sure, that we continue making change and the indirect effect of this is that Microsoft continues to have to do releases, because if we get so far ahead that we're able to drive the platform they are not able to keep up and keep their users. I mean, we have this joke which says 'Internet Explorer 7 is the best release we ever did,' because they would not have done it, if we would have not built Firefox. And the same is true for Apple, they are doing a lot to keep up with us. Safari 3.1 is a good example, as far as we see it, the only reason they did this release was that Firefox 3 would come out and have Javascript speed which would be twice as fast as theirs, cause that's how it was before. So by pushing other people to make releases we can go on our mission to make sure the web stays healthy."
Erste Post du Dummkopf!
I always maintained that Win2K was such a good OS specifically because of the competition Microsoft was getting from open source, they didn't want to be caught napping and wake up to find Linux as a good desktop solution. This theory kind of fell apart with Vista, I have no idea what that steaming pile is in response to.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
And Opera is feeling so pressured by Firefox that it is systematically forced to copy Firefox's features months and even years before Firefox releases them... ^_^
What will Firefox copy next? (what? troll?)
middle-click-to-close on tabs comes to mind
It's hard to tell between a left-click, middle-click, and right-click on a one button mouse...
Was 4 windows and 40 tabs it seems, but no-one cares anyway :D
I never knew, that German, was quite so, comma-happy.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
... Firefox, Opera, IE and Safari all are great networking operating systems. They just lack good browsers.
Can you please come over and teach my mom. And while you're at it can you work on getting rid of AOL? I feel like she's stuck in the 90s.
Apple released Safari 3.1 as a reaction to Mozilla releasing Firefox 3 nearly three months later? That's a rather creative way to spin things.
There were web users in the late 60s?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
yeap: Spiderman...
$ sudo apt-get install ie
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ie
$ sudo apt-get install internet-explorer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package internet-explorer
Erm, well I guess I have to use Firefox then! ;-)
Common sense is not so common
--- Firefox_vs_IE (revision 1)
+++ Firefox_vs_IE (revision 3)
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Me: You should try FireFox.
Friend: Why?
-Me: See the tabs? Makes things a whole lot easier to keep track of.
+Me: *Browses to MySpace* Notice anything different?
+Friend: Where are all the annoying ads?
+Me: It's called AdBlock.
Friend: Awesome!
FireFoxUsers++;
Sanity is like a condom: rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Old joke. Apologies to whoever I ripped it off from.
Internet Explorer: Where do you want to go today?
Firefox: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Opera: Are you guys coming or what?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.