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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."
AFAIK, it still isn't free as in speech, just as in beer. I can do without that kind of free.
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IE7 has the security and reliability. It's also quicker than FF and doesn't leak memory like a sieve. I don't care about Ad Ons, Open Source or Microsoft points. And it's funny that you accuse me or drinking Kool Aid when you're parroting Mozilla's evangelism.
Actually I use Opera on sites that support it which is almost all and IE for the rest (Gmail). FF always seems slow and bloated to me, and the UI isn't as elegant as Opera's. And the memory leaks are ridiculous, even as system with lots of Ram will be brought to its knees by FF given enough time.
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Whew... OK... I caught my breath. Damn, that article summary was funny. OK, so I guess I could see maybe the very first decision to fund Safari development at Apple to be in part due to the fact that FireFox on the Mac sucked so horribly that people actually went back and forth between FireFox and MSIE. Other than that, the claim that Safari tries to catch up with FireFox is truly entertaining. That was the best laugh I had all day! Thanks.
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I would give Opera more recognition and respect if its users weren't constantly whinging about how little respect it gets. Hype about how it's faster, more secure, more standards compliant, easier to use, and has more features than every other browser doesn't help either. If it were really that great, more users would be using it. I've tried Opera many times in the past, and I go back to Mozilla browsers every time, as do many others who try Opera.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
And before Opera quite a few of the features were being done in other browsers.
Get over it, products are just ripoffs of other products. The key thing to note about each product is how well they rip the other product off.
Firefox has innovated quite a few things, however, so don't act like it's an exact clone of Opera. Plus it has that whole "render the web as the developer designed it" thing. I swear if I had to support Opera in my web designing I'd go insane. Everything associated with lists and quite a bit of CSS is screwed up in Opera.
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