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Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers

Posted by Soulskill on from the driving-the-market dept.

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."

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  1. competition breeds improvement by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Opera by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 5, Funny

    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... ^_^

    1. Re:Opera by smussman · · Score: 5, Funny

      And they won't even tell us how they do the time travel thing ... that's why open source is so much better.

  3. Re:Way to go FF! by beav007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  4. Re:What astonishes me... by ben2umbc · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:What astonishes me... by Mhtsos · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeap: Spiderman...