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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. Re:What astonishes me...FF 3-4 times/day crash? by JavaManJim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In reverse Polish,

    Great Al Bundy quote. My life indeed. However in very high percentage of males in Dallas, I made a charming find last Sat. West Village is where they all gather.

    Apologies but I think the issue is your nice Ubuntu 8.04 OS. Maybe FF 3.1 was not tested enough on that platform. PS I am green with envy, not because of today's jalapenos, but by your great OS.

    Good luck,
    Jim

  2. Re:What astonishes me...FF 3-4 times/day crash? by JavaManJim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correction here. No one, not even me sometimes, can read my mind.

    . . . . West Village is where they all gather . . . "they" in this context are women with excellent xx chromosomes.

    Thanks,
    Jim

  3. I tried FF3, reverted to FF2 by tlhIngan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I admit, I liked FF3. It was really fast, and the upgrade made me hunt for extension updates that had a few more features than the one I currently used.

    Unfortunately, for me, it also had a habit of not properly repainting the window. I could browse to a page, and as it rendered, it would "forget" to erase the previous stuff it drew, leading to a huge mess. Othertimes, I would drag a window over it, then switch back to Firefox. Except, Firefox doesn't draw the page, and I'm left with an image of the last window that covered it. Finally, the one thing that really irritated me, when I switched tabs, it didn't update the window. I have to scroll down and scroll back up, which redraws the page. If the page isn't very long, this doesn't work very well.

    The irritating thing is, sometimes it works just fine - draws just fine, othertimes, I get this behavior. It's almost as if the Windows desktop heap is exhausted, except that the normal programs that fail when it's full, don't.

    I just wish I knew how to file the bug so I can report it...

    I switched back to FF2 - I'll take correctly drawing windows over speed... scrolling windows costs way more time than FF2's slower renderer.