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Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode
Crazzaper writes "I have been using Firefox for many years, and the war of the browsers has been around for longer than that. It just so happens that now we have a lot of options out there: IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and others. People are always talking about how one browser is going to take down another, but maybe that's not the issue at all. It seems very possible that one browser, like Firefox, can be taken down by multiple browsers at once, whether or not there was any intention to compete specifically with Firefox. I hadn't seen it this way, but I do now."
So does this mean they have to stock up on rice and firearms and survival gear?
They should develop another browser, Firefaux, and make it appear to be the biggest threat in the browser wars. Firefox can then team up with Chrome and Opera to take down Firefaux, all the while distracting everyone from the need to take down Firefox instead. Just re-animate Firefaux as needed to keep up the distraction. No one will ever catch on to the connection between Firefox and Firefaux, and world domination will only be inevitable.
My webcomic
Survivor 10: Internet Edition. Web-browsers battle it our in the toughest of surfing environments: hundreds of tabs, incompatible add-ons, swamps of malware, installs on wristwatches! (Spoiler: In the finale, FireFox and IE team up (gasp!) in a last ditch effort to defeat young upstarts Safari and Chrome!)
Personally I telnet to port 80. By whistling down my phone line really precisely. Using only zeroes, no ones.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
They are actually working on a mind controlled version of Firefox. Unfortunately it only works if you think in Russian.
Veramocor
Roger, that, Captain Kirk
Please dont describe obscure brands like Firefox without providing an introduction.
For those of you that haven't heard, please see more at http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Firefox
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
(cranky old man mode)
I been using my computer to view porn since the days of 4000 colors. That's all I want. I don't need those other ____ty features mucking it up. As long as my browser can resolve GIFs, JPGs, and videos that's all's I want.
(pounds sign into lawn that reads, "Get off.")
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I click on the ads that have hot chicks in tight geek-themed t-shirts.
Terrorist, bomb, al Qaeda, nuclear, yellowcake, kill, assassinate. Carnivore is dead... long live Echelon.
I've spent the last year building a statistical computation software that's entirely web-based, and entirely written in javascript.
Dear god! Why?
Some people believe that in order to grow closer to their spiritual nature they must torture their physical form to the utmost.
Corporeal Mortification - not just for overzealous Catholics anymore.
Sure. I have nothing better to do than maintaining my hosts file to block every single domain that serves ads. And you should see my mom hacking away with her computer's hosts file.
I don't even know why people use silly tools like browsers. I telnet to every site and write all the HTTP requests by hand, header by header. I don't get any ads this way because I don't type the requests to download the ads. See? Easy!