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"shocked and awed"!: MSN recommends Firefox
« on: July 05, 2004, 07:07:51 PM »
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/

I don't see any flying pigs around either!

PS: I've taken a screenshot of that page.  Gems like this come once in a lifetime :-)
 

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Re: "shocked and awed"!: MSN recommends Firefox
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2004, 07:23:48 PM »
We are talking about a company who hates open source with a passion... I think someone is going to get fired for that article making it onto the site...
 

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Re: "shocked and awed"!: MSN recommends Firefox
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2004, 01:46:11 AM »
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Hi mikeymike,

Do you think that Firefox will install over IE or is IE embedded in Windows and can not be removed?


Don't bother trying to uninstall IE.

Firefox will co-exist fine with IE with either as the default browser.
 

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Re: "shocked and awed"!: MSN recommends Firefox
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2004, 09:26:27 AM »
Firefox?  Compliance issues?  Erm, no.

As for stability, since Firebird 0.7 I have had about 3 app crashes in total that were caused by general browsing.  Add another 6 for testing other sites that other people say crash the browser.

Firefox does have bugs in of course, though I wouldn't go as far as to say 'buggy' or I wouldn't use it, because I use apps that *work* and don't have patience for ones that don't just *work*.  I have one bug report open for a bizarre/obscure page rendering issue and that's it.  Compare that in the past to on average I used to have about 6 Mozilla bug reports open simultaneously, which is now down to 0.  Mozilla is more 'feature stable' than Firefox, and I would prefer Firefox to be 'feature stable' (as in, I don't want new bells and whistles, I want things like its memory usage improved!), but Firefox has features over Mozilla, and I like Thunderbird ten times more than Moz Mail.