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Firefox Exec Says Windows Bundling Is a Bad Idea
eldavojohn writes "The Firefox executives say they don't want to be bundled with Windows. Firefox architect Mike Conner also said this of Opera, 'Opera's asserting something that's provably false. It's asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don't know how you can make the claim with a straight face. As people become aware there's an alternative, you don't end up in that [monopoly] situation. You have to be perceptibly better [than Internet Explorer].' He also told PCPro that they are worried about becoming the next monopoly just like Microsoft is now."
Better interface. Almost every user I met complained about the IE7 interface.
Well, thanks for your anecdote. But it doesn't mean anything.
It makes terrible use of space, while the FF interface uses the standard File/Edit/View bar, and the tabs area goes all of the way across which provides more room for tab labels.
Again, thanks for your opinion. If I remove the Favorites bar, IE uses less space than my FF toolbars. Of course in either of them you can hit F11 and go full screen if you're really concerned about space. But this whole part of the discussion is moot; you think it's relevent, but you may very well be a minority, and except for your anecdote, there's no facts here.
FF also crashes less.
Thanks for this comment from 1999. Since FF never crashes, I guess they wasted their time saving state so that it could get back the pages you were viewing at the time of the non-existent crash.
It also takes less time to display webpages. And if you show the average user what can be done with extensions they find interesting, they are totally sold on FF (I had one user switch just for the Colorful Tabs add-on).
Sorry, did you read my post? And again with your anecdotes. I like how your argument hinges on something as trivial as Colorful tabs. I doubt most people would care enough about that add-on (or add-ons in general) to switch.. especially when IE supports add-ons as well.
Please try thinking rationally about my post... and realize your anecdotes are just that.