Or he can keep making billion dollar purchases and selling them at a loss.
I hate to reward incompentence here but there wont be a company left before you know it. HP is in big trouble. I guess I shouldn't care since I do not own stock. I am bugged because I hate Dell quality and I do not see any real choices for corporate customers anymore besides Dell. I guess they could go Lenovo but I do not know if they are quality products anymore.
If Windows 8 were not coming out I could see Dell buying WebOS as they would love to get into the smart phone market and are not heavily invested in Andriod yet. Unfortunately, Dell has a history of not pissing off Microsoft nor Intel and probably prefers to sell a Windows 8 PAD instead. the incompentence is just astounding
They have been blowing up the company since Carly Fiona, became the CEO. The problems HP has are a decade old. They have no respect for employees and treat them like machines or cattle and now are shocked that after 10 years of layoffs month after month that only incompetence remains.
I could cite examples but I wont waste space. I am just dumbfounded and glad I do not own shares of the company. HP has a history of killing the goose with the golden eggs and focusing on things that do not make money instead. Ink is the only thing that gives them money thanks to the DMCA and chips in the cartridges. Once the patents expire on them they are screwed. All the good produces are under Agile now like medical equipment that HP used to make. No doubt, they will sell WebOS at a loss and focus on the 0 profit margin desktops instead and let a few billion shareholder money go to waste.
HP was a different place 10 years ago where they made high quality components and were known for great innovation and management.
It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it. Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots
Last I checked you could use.NET in C++. So use.NET for the gui and networking frameworks and use C++ to do hardcore number crunching. Also there are native data structures in.NET and Java you can use in your program if you need performance. Most amature programmers never look in the math or collections libraries.
Oh from the fact it was $300 an ounce not too long ago and it goes up to $1600! Why? Buy low sell high is what I pulled out of my anus. The whole gold thing reminds me of real estate investment. I have seen it before and seen family members lose their life savings flipping houses when the bill comes due and the rates reset.
Once the recession recovers and people start buying stocks and bonds again the value of gold will plumbet. My father had a friend who in 1980 bought it and lost 80% of his money. Even if he held on today he still would not break even until it would hit $1800 an ounce after adjusting inflation.
Gold is very volatile and inconsistent as it can go in either direction very very fast and takes decades to swing back. It wont hit $6000 my friend.
That looks obsolete. First off Gold is overvalued now and it is time to sell. Treasuries are no longer AAA and for short term the Us can repay its debt, but there is risk the TEA party will hold it hostage and by 2020 the GDP to assets ratio will be too much and will cause the US to be insolvent. Too much risk if you are looking for a safe investment ot offset more risky ones.
I do not trust Wall Street and I am broke currently. If I had money I would avoid Wall Street altogether as they are driven by flash trading and people who trade before and after hours by looking at our transactions pending and setting the price before they go in and ripping us off.
I guess in this economic age I would only trust bonds, but the interest is crap. What a terrible time to invest.
I sincerely believe a selected few with HFT flash computers including Goldman Sachs control the prices. They get to trade before the bell opens and after the bell closes. Or more like set the market to raise or fall before you nor I get our transactions in (This was illegal until recently).
They get to eliminate spreads which raises the prices as a big sell off wont lower the price, and therefore the share becomes overvalued. They also have the power to keep a share price artificially low by buying a share quickly before the rest of us see it as an increase in demand.
Goldman Sachs has a monopoly on the market thanks to Leehman Brothers going bankrupt so if you had a startup and your shares were valued at $25 a share going in, guess who would demand you sell 50% of your shares for $5 each? Goldman Sachs, so that way they can flip them dirt dirt cheap while the rest of us are forced to pay $25 a share. I am not talking about preferred shares either. If you disagree Sachs will deny to allow you to go public.
Blind luck is right. Nothing is rational and to top it off Goldman Sachs and the High Frequency Traders make money both ways when it looses money by shorting it or betting agaisnt it and when it goes up in value. The only person being screwed is you.
It will include IE so the CIOs can work with their intranet activeX sites and can be locked down by I.T. It will fill the disadvantages of the IPAD.
I have a feeling it will take a large hit out of the IPAD market and hard Android. It wont kill it but it will make it very popular for business executives
I switched to Windows 7 as well. I had a tendancy for Windows 7 due to Photoshop and Dreamweaver anyway which I want to learn. I saw the writting on the wall and watched the marketshare on gStat show Linux losing half the marketshare. Even Microsoft announced they won in their annual threat report announced on www.zdnet.com.
Linux looks uber cool but I am sick and tired of playing with it rather than doing work to get it just right. There is always something to do on it.
Windows 7 is nice and it is great to know if I hate Firefox and Chrome I have IE 9 as a backup. If I support PCs for a living it only makes sense for me to familiarize myself with the platform. I do miss somethings with Gnome 2 and Unix, but KDE 4 and Gnome 3 showed me the writting was on the wall.
That was my impression too. It seems like the same developers who made the BC made Cat. It is like there are 2 teams at Blizzard.
The only resemblence of style were the new quests starting out. For example to introduce the Lich King, your first quest is to talk to him when you are reborn as a DeathKnight and he gaves you the first quest. Now when you choose a new undead character in Cat, a banshee rezes you and immediately informs you that you are subject to a new undead queen and you take quests from Sylvannas herself at level 12. Pretty sweet
I also noticed as I progressed my undead character that Thral and Hellscream are introduced and they give a little plot away too and gives hint about Sylvannas becoming the next Lich Queen. Hellscream hates her guts.
Anyway other than that and the much better graphics I feel there is no content. I will see if my prediction is correct when we hear about the next expansion and to see if the other development team exists
Problem would go away with a Firefox release schedule. The old 7 year releases just do not add innovation enough. Just ask Asa Dolzter?
If we had a Firefox release schedule where every 6 - 8 weeks we have a complely new UI and to top it off... a new API so all the scripts and preferences will need to be changed we would truly be 21st century modern. I mean Gnome 3 is sooo last April. Its August come on where is Gnome 7!
You know I feel dirty even saying this, but IE is a pretty darn good browser now.
This is coming from a hardcore anti IE user. I refused to use it even during Netscape's dark days when IE 4 and IE 5 were the rage I never used them. I stuck with good old Netscape 4.7. After that I tried Mozilla, which is now called Seamonkey, After that Phoenix and fell in love. Phoenix became Firefox after a trademark dispute.
I installed Firefox 6 for the hell of it and let me tell you it was HORRIBLE. It was slow, buggy, and a few sites didn't render right. After fast scrolling with the arrow keys from Chrome and IE it seems painfully slow to browser. Firefox 6 is the new IE 6, and IE 9 and Chrome are current. No shame using IE anymore. Good job MS and bad job Mozilla.
I am more of an amature web developer admittingly, but I was under the impression that you should not use percentages in tables because some browsers use doubles and others use floats to store this data? That would mean round errors would resize this right?
"If you can't handle short release cycles you're not agile. And competing companies which have an infrastructure for automatically verification in place will leap ahead.
Wow, I have never heard that before nor seen it in action. Businesses are not being paid by customers to be agile. They are being paid to produce whatever they make. Agile is expensive, cumbersome, and brings little return on investment unless you run an R&D lab or software company.
Windows XP, IE 6, and Word 2000 can make a secretary just as productive as Windows 7, IE 9, and Word 2010. Why upgrade? I hate 10 year old operating systems and my example is extreme, but if you owned a company that made fishsticks why would you waste it in agile I.T. infrustructure building? It isn't your job to help spread HTML 5.It is to make fishsticks and thats it.
Now having agile processes for making more fishsticks that is useful.... in other words agile development is bad and a failure. Firefox proves ti and customers do not want it unless their business absolutely needs to be up to date and makes a shitload of money like WallStreet flash trading companies, or R&D labs at Los Alamos.
I never have seen agile used and never will. Waste of money
"Tell that to the guys in the R&D lab. I can walk in there right now and I bet at LEAST 3 computers are currently in a raid on WoW."...?
So is your boss looking for new slot in your R&D lab, from a responsible employee? FYI I worked at a famous game company at one time and I never logged into Wow or a supported game unless I was quickly checking something for a customer. I am at work and being paid to produce and not play games.
In this economy where millions are broke I find it shocking that someone who is receiving a paycheck is doing that when so many are begging to work.
I was referring more to vendors saying don't bother calling us if you used my product with anything other than IE, rather than ActiveX controls. But why not use ActiveX if you are supporting a single product and platform.?
I do not want that to happen, but Firefox does not handle HTML the same way each version and I have seen it do weird things already since version 4. So gas may not work all the time because the gas cap (api ) keeps changing. If you support a 1 million dollar project with industrial controls or a specialized client/server app my ass could be on the line as I guarantee uptimes and bugs with my contract I give as an example. So if Firefox introduces a bug, now I am in violation of my contract and would be held liable. Scary and bad.
But even for home users Firefox is truly awefull and reminds me of the bugs of IE 7.
All I have to say is I am glad Chrome exists right now but that is very rapid even if it is a supperior browser. Lets wait and see and if Google is smart they will come out with an enterprise release that will make I.T. happy.
My parents still run Firefox and it is beginning to become more quirky with html rendering. It is simply unstable do to the API.
I would get rid of Firefox if I were you. You never know if an update will come on breaking something at your school and having angry calls going thru the roof. Chrome updates a lot too but is considered more stable.
I would like into IE. It is not the piece of garbage it was and IE 9 is smooth and supports standards again. Its support of HTML 4 and 5 is about where Firefox 3.6 is and it is much more secure than it was and even IE 8 is fairly secure on Windows Vista and above now.
Yes, some people in my former guild have quit Wow after the constant horrible updates because they had shitty connections. Until Catacylsm the patching was a pain. Now they are gradual and you can play while they download.
Also Blizzard patches the servers as well as the clients at the same time and enforce both the client and server run the same version. You can't do this with a website. So the office needs to dump Firefox and downgrade back to IE.
This is more akin to the car manufactures constantly changing the gas cap.
If the API is stable and so is the html rendering engine then that is workable. Chrome likes to keep these 2 stable while just adding more tags and fixing css bugs. Only alpha level quality software changes API's.
Linux users might be in trouble for sure and this is a great way to kill Linux at the desktop at work with intranet apps now only supporting IE again. Mobile manufactors might be the only hope for vendors, but I am sure they will ban IPAD support and make sure there apps only work on Windows Mobile instead.
Firefox was making inroads and they just blew out because Joes at home were browsing with Chrome more. What a shame.
"That would make you about as useful as the new version system that Firefox will use."
How would it? I know all of my clients would use either IE 8 or IE 9. I would know the issues with each and memorize the error messages and event logs for both so I could learn how to solve problems for each. With 5 versions of Firefox it is too much. Also how do I know some stupid update will not come in rendering their website useless or their suppliers inventory internet site will mysteriously stop working? My calls would go up through the roof and customer annoyances will blame me rather than Firefox. No thank you.
If something doesn't work for the upcoming IE 10 I can fix it. But that update is only once every 1.5 years not every 6 weeks.
Basically, he used to work for Microsoft and helped write a bad clone of postscript for Windows 95 and was influential engineering DirectX1 & 2 when it was called WinG for Windows 3.11.
He had an article detailing how Microsoft wins over its rivals. How? The rivals see the big bad scary Microsoft and end up doing something stupid and killing themselves out of fear. MS had nothing to do with it. I look at Mozilla and you know what I see? Someone freaking out trying to be something they are not in a market they are not.
I believe in 2 years Firefox will start to become irrelevant. Grandmas might use it and of course some geeks will have it on their computers even if they do nto use it but the marketshare will drastically go down and that is a shame. What Firefox had that Chrome didn't was a stable release cycle and some limited enterprise use for clients who had to stick with IE 6, but needed a secure more up to date browser for the internet. But Mozilla wanted to be cool like Chrome and follow all of its disadvantages and be something that they are not.
Chrome was well planned to be gradually updated with stable api's and a similiar rendering engines with all versions with slight additions rather than complete changes. Firefox was in such a hurry it didn't implement it right. May they rest in peace.
If I have to certify my product x, works with y browser then how can my clients truly know what version of Firefox they use?
Unlike IE updates the api changes every 6 weeks and so does the html rendering and everything else. It looks like IE is the only game in town.
I am beginning to like the browser more day in and day out. Even if your job is just a help desk job it is going to be a pain to figure out which verison of the browser the client is using. If I owned a tech support company I would be strongly in favor of telling the clients to only use IE or I wont support you. Just too much variation and this is an alpha/beta quality product as far as I am concerned. Truly stable products do not update every few weeks.
Chrome supports XSS protection which was one of the main arguments for using noscript. Chrome is well patched against most javascript exploits that are local these days and a good antivirus product will catch any that get through.
Chrome is coming up with its own version of noscript in a future release.
It is pretty safe now to leave Firefox. Personally, I can't stand noscript as it bleeps like the UAC controls in Vista each time I go to a page I have never been before and that drives me nuts.
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Or he can keep making billion dollar purchases and selling them at a loss.
I hate to reward incompentence here but there wont be a company left before you know it. HP is in big trouble. I guess I shouldn't care since I do not own stock. I am bugged because I hate Dell quality and I do not see any real choices for corporate customers anymore besides Dell. I guess they could go Lenovo but I do not know if they are quality products anymore.
If Windows 8 were not coming out I could see Dell buying WebOS as they would love to get into the smart phone market and are not heavily invested in Andriod yet. Unfortunately, Dell has a history of not pissing off Microsoft nor Intel and probably prefers to sell a Windows 8 PAD instead. the incompentence is just astounding
They have been blowing up the company since Carly Fiona, became the CEO. The problems HP has are a decade old. They have no respect for employees and treat them like machines or cattle and now are shocked that after 10 years of layoffs month after month that only incompetence remains.
I could cite examples but I wont waste space. I am just dumbfounded and glad I do not own shares of the company. HP has a history of killing the goose with the golden eggs and focusing on things that do not make money instead. Ink is the only thing that gives them money thanks to the DMCA and chips in the cartridges. Once the patents expire on them they are screwed. All the good produces are under Agile now like medical equipment that HP used to make. No doubt, they will sell WebOS at a loss and focus on the 0 profit margin desktops instead and let a few billion shareholder money go to waste.
HP was a different place 10 years ago where they made high quality components and were known for great innovation and management.
I wonder if patents had anything to do with it?
It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it. Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots
Last I checked you could use .NET in C++. So use .NET for the gui and networking frameworks and use C++ to do hardcore number crunching. Also there are native data structures in .NET and Java you can use in your program if you need performance. Most amature programmers never look in the math or collections libraries.
Oh from the fact it was $300 an ounce not too long ago and it goes up to $1600! Why? Buy low sell high is what I pulled out of my anus. The whole gold thing reminds me of real estate investment. I have seen it before and seen family members lose their life savings flipping houses when the bill comes due and the rates reset.
Once the recession recovers and people start buying stocks and bonds again the value of gold will plumbet. My father had a friend who in 1980 bought it and lost 80% of his money. Even if he held on today he still would not break even until it would hit $1800 an ounce after adjusting inflation.
Gold is very volatile and inconsistent as it can go in either direction very very fast and takes decades to swing back. It wont hit $6000 my friend.
That looks obsolete. First off Gold is overvalued now and it is time to sell. Treasuries are no longer AAA and for short term the Us can repay its debt, but there is risk the TEA party will hold it hostage and by 2020 the GDP to assets ratio will be too much and will cause the US to be insolvent. Too much risk if you are looking for a safe investment ot offset more risky ones.
I do not trust Wall Street and I am broke currently. If I had money I would avoid Wall Street altogether as they are driven by flash trading and people who trade before and after hours by looking at our transactions pending and setting the price before they go in and ripping us off.
I guess in this economic age I would only trust bonds, but the interest is crap. What a terrible time to invest.
I sincerely believe a selected few with HFT flash computers including Goldman Sachs control the prices. They get to trade before the bell opens and after the bell closes. Or more like set the market to raise or fall before you nor I get our transactions in (This was illegal until recently).
They get to eliminate spreads which raises the prices as a big sell off wont lower the price, and therefore the share becomes overvalued. They also have the power to keep a share price artificially low by buying a share quickly before the rest of us see it as an increase in demand.
Goldman Sachs has a monopoly on the market thanks to Leehman Brothers going bankrupt so if you had a startup and your shares were valued at $25 a share going in, guess who would demand you sell 50% of your shares for $5 each? Goldman Sachs, so that way they can flip them dirt dirt cheap while the rest of us are forced to pay $25 a share. I am not talking about preferred shares either. If you disagree Sachs will deny to allow you to go public.
Blind luck is right. Nothing is rational and to top it off Goldman Sachs and the High Frequency Traders make money both ways when it looses money by shorting it or betting agaisnt it and when it goes up in value. The only person being screwed is you.
It will include IE so the CIOs can work with their intranet activeX sites and can be locked down by I.T. It will fill the disadvantages of the IPAD.
I have a feeling it will take a large hit out of the IPAD market and hard Android. It wont kill it but it will make it very popular for business executives
I switched to Windows 7 as well. I had a tendancy for Windows 7 due to Photoshop and Dreamweaver anyway which I want to learn. I saw the writting on the wall and watched the marketshare on gStat show Linux losing half the marketshare. Even Microsoft announced they won in their annual threat report announced on www.zdnet.com.
Linux looks uber cool but I am sick and tired of playing with it rather than doing work to get it just right. There is always something to do on it.
Windows 7 is nice and it is great to know if I hate Firefox and Chrome I have IE 9 as a backup. If I support PCs for a living it only makes sense for me to familiarize myself with the platform. I do miss somethings with Gnome 2 and Unix, but KDE 4 and Gnome 3 showed me the writting was on the wall.
Hell I want a minimize button. Good god even Grandmas using Windows 98 will be looking for this
That was my impression too. It seems like the same developers who made the BC made Cat. It is like there are 2 teams at Blizzard.
The only resemblence of style were the new quests starting out. For example to introduce the Lich King, your first quest is to talk to him when you are reborn as a DeathKnight and he gaves you the first quest. Now when you choose a new undead character in Cat, a banshee rezes you and immediately informs you that you are subject to a new undead queen and you take quests from Sylvannas herself at level 12. Pretty sweet
I also noticed as I progressed my undead character that Thral and Hellscream are introduced and they give a little plot away too and gives hint about Sylvannas becoming the next Lich Queen. Hellscream hates her guts.
Anyway other than that and the much better graphics I feel there is no content. I will see if my prediction is correct when we hear about the next expansion and to see if the other development team exists
Problem would go away with a Firefox release schedule. The old 7 year releases just do not add innovation enough. Just ask Asa Dolzter?
If we had a Firefox release schedule where every 6 - 8 weeks we have a complely new UI and to top it off ... a new API so all the scripts and preferences will need to be changed we would truly be 21st century modern. I mean Gnome 3 is sooo last April. Its August come on where is Gnome 7!
You know I feel dirty even saying this, but IE is a pretty darn good browser now.
This is coming from a hardcore anti IE user. I refused to use it even during Netscape's dark days when IE 4 and IE 5 were the rage I never used them. I stuck with good old Netscape 4.7. After that I tried Mozilla, which is now called Seamonkey, After that Phoenix and fell in love. Phoenix became Firefox after a trademark dispute.
I installed Firefox 6 for the hell of it and let me tell you it was HORRIBLE. It was slow, buggy, and a few sites didn't render right. After fast scrolling with the arrow keys from Chrome and IE it seems painfully slow to browser. Firefox 6 is the new IE 6, and IE 9 and Chrome are current. No shame using IE anymore. Good job MS and bad job Mozilla.
Not Wall Street or finance.
I am more of an amature web developer admittingly, but I was under the impression that you should not use percentages in tables because some browsers use doubles and others use floats to store this data? That would mean round errors would resize this right?
"If you can't handle short release cycles you're not agile. And competing companies which have an infrastructure for automatically verification in place will leap ahead.
Wow, I have never heard that before nor seen it in action. Businesses are not being paid by customers to be agile. They are being paid to produce whatever they make. Agile is expensive, cumbersome, and brings little return on investment unless you run an R&D lab or software company.
Windows XP, IE 6, and Word 2000 can make a secretary just as productive as Windows 7, IE 9, and Word 2010. Why upgrade? I hate 10 year old operating systems and my example is extreme, but if you owned a company that made fishsticks why would you waste it in agile I.T. infrustructure building? It isn't your job to help spread HTML 5.It is to make fishsticks and thats it.
Now having agile processes for making more fishsticks that is useful. ... in other words agile development is bad and a failure. Firefox proves ti and customers do not want it unless their business absolutely needs to be up to date and makes a shitload of money like WallStreet flash trading companies, or R&D labs at Los Alamos.
I never have seen agile used and never will. Waste of money
"Tell that to the guys in the R&D lab. I can walk in there right now and I bet at LEAST 3 computers are currently in a raid on WoW." ...?
So is your boss looking for new slot in your R&D lab, from a responsible employee? FYI I worked at a famous game company at one time and I never logged into Wow or a supported game unless I was quickly checking something for a customer. I am at work and being paid to produce and not play games.
In this economy where millions are broke I find it shocking that someone who is receiving a paycheck is doing that when so many are begging to work.
I was referring more to vendors saying don't bother calling us if you used my product with anything other than IE, rather than ActiveX controls. But why not use ActiveX if you are supporting a single product and platform.?
I do not want that to happen, but Firefox does not handle HTML the same way each version and I have seen it do weird things already since version 4. So gas may not work all the time because the gas cap (api ) keeps changing. If you support a 1 million dollar project with industrial controls or a specialized client/server app my ass could be on the line as I guarantee uptimes and bugs with my contract I give as an example. So if Firefox introduces a bug, now I am in violation of my contract and would be held liable. Scary and bad.
But even for home users Firefox is truly awefull and reminds me of the bugs of IE 7.
All I have to say is I am glad Chrome exists right now but that is very rapid even if it is a supperior browser. Lets wait and see and if Google is smart they will come out with an enterprise release that will make I.T. happy.
My parents still run Firefox and it is beginning to become more quirky with html rendering. It is simply unstable do to the API.
I would get rid of Firefox if I were you. You never know if an update will come on breaking something at your school and having angry calls going thru the roof. Chrome updates a lot too but is considered more stable.
I would like into IE. It is not the piece of garbage it was and IE 9 is smooth and supports standards again. Its support of HTML 4 and 5 is about where Firefox 3.6 is and it is much more secure than it was and even IE 8 is fairly secure on Windows Vista and above now.
People do not run Wow at work.
Yes, some people in my former guild have quit Wow after the constant horrible updates because they had shitty connections. Until Catacylsm the patching was a pain. Now they are gradual and you can play while they download.
Also Blizzard patches the servers as well as the clients at the same time and enforce both the client and server run the same version. You can't do this with a website. So the office needs to dump Firefox and downgrade back to IE.
This is more akin to the car manufactures constantly changing the gas cap.
If the API is stable and so is the html rendering engine then that is workable. Chrome likes to keep these 2 stable while just adding more tags and fixing css bugs. Only alpha level quality software changes API's.
Linux users might be in trouble for sure and this is a great way to kill Linux at the desktop at work with intranet apps now only supporting IE again. Mobile manufactors might be the only hope for vendors, but I am sure they will ban IPAD support and make sure there apps only work on Windows Mobile instead.
Firefox was making inroads and they just blew out because Joes at home were browsing with Chrome more. What a shame.
"That would make you about as useful as the new version system that Firefox will use."
How would it? I know all of my clients would use either IE 8 or IE 9. I would know the issues with each and memorize the error messages and event logs for both so I could learn how to solve problems for each. With 5 versions of Firefox it is too much. Also how do I know some stupid update will not come in rendering their website useless or their suppliers inventory internet site will mysteriously stop working? My calls would go up through the roof and customer annoyances will blame me rather than Firefox. No thank you.
If something doesn't work for the upcoming IE 10 I can fix it. But that update is only once every 1.5 years not every 6 weeks.
I used to be a fan of Alex St John in MaximumPC.
Basically, he used to work for Microsoft and helped write a bad clone of postscript for Windows 95 and was influential engineering DirectX1 & 2 when it was called WinG for Windows 3.11.
He had an article detailing how Microsoft wins over its rivals. How? The rivals see the big bad scary Microsoft and end up doing something stupid and killing themselves out of fear. MS had nothing to do with it. I look at Mozilla and you know what I see? Someone freaking out trying to be something they are not in a market they are not.
I believe in 2 years Firefox will start to become irrelevant. Grandmas might use it and of course some geeks will have it on their computers even if they do nto use it but the marketshare will drastically go down and that is a shame. What Firefox had that Chrome didn't was a stable release cycle and some limited enterprise use for clients who had to stick with IE 6, but needed a secure more up to date browser for the internet. But Mozilla wanted to be cool like Chrome and follow all of its disadvantages and be something that they are not.
Chrome was well planned to be gradually updated with stable api's and a similiar rendering engines with all versions with slight additions rather than complete changes. Firefox was in such a hurry it didn't implement it right. May they rest in peace.
If I have to certify my product x, works with y browser then how can my clients truly know what version of Firefox they use?
Unlike IE updates the api changes every 6 weeks and so does the html rendering and everything else. It looks like IE is the only game in town.
I am beginning to like the browser more day in and day out. Even if your job is just a help desk job it is going to be a pain to figure out which verison of the browser the client is using. If I owned a tech support company I would be strongly in favor of telling the clients to only use IE or I wont support you. Just too much variation and this is an alpha/beta quality product as far as I am concerned. Truly stable products do not update every few weeks.
Chrome supports XSS protection which was one of the main arguments for using noscript. Chrome is well patched against most javascript exploits that are local these days and a good antivirus product will catch any that get through.
Chrome is coming up with its own version of noscript in a future release.
It is pretty safe now to leave Firefox. Personally, I can't stand noscript as it bleeps like the UAC controls in Vista each time I go to a page I have never been before and that drives me nuts.