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Where Did FireFox Come From?

weblogs.mozillazine.org — An interesting look at the history of the hot browser that is chipping away at IE's browser market share.

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  • EpicSA, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This gets my digg. It is about time people realized that is is all hype. I know most of you already are aware that FireFox is not the second coming of Christ and probably use it for the plug-ins like me. But let's be honest, after a weekend using IE or Opera again it is hard to go back to the slowness that is FireFox.
  • r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"It's a large, bloated program running on inherited code with inherited and introduced bugs and a long list of shortcomings people conveniently forget because they're busy making videos.", http://www.slyerfox.com/hype.aspx
  • isewise, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@episca
    IE is the straight up cancer of the internet next to Myspace. I dont believe that Firefox is the second coming of Christ, I ve had plenty of times of it crashing on my but, adblock....come on can IE beat that?....
  • crazooDOTcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2All IE needs is tabbed browsing...
  • steved3298, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3...and extensions and hundreds of bugfixes
  • Elxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2IE6 is seriously pulling down the Internet right now. I use Firefox, but I'm not an active anti-Microsoft person or anything. The thing is though, IE as it is now does not support many of the new (and old!) enhancements to CSS and it has very buggy Javascript support. This is slowing down the development of many cool new Web apps because they have to figure out workarounds for IE.

    Hopefully this will be solved and we can all be friends when IE7 comes out.
  • sid333, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://fanboycry.blogspot.com/
  • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2As soon as the official release of IE7 is out, firefox is GONE!

    FF crashes on me several times a day... I hate it.
  • ArchAngel21x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"All IE needs is tabbed browsing..."

    http://toolbar.msn.com/
  • chair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting read, never really understood why the modern theme exists, now i do :)
  • crazooDOTcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 ArchAngel21x - Thanks!

    I had no idea this existed!
  • MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1jkfan87
    If Firefox is taking 95% of your system memory, then you need more....badly. I like the extensions and themes for Firefox. As far as downloading outside programs, Mozilla has set up a site specifically for themes and extensions. Most of the extensions are there, so easy to find and install. It doesn't require us to go through a search engine. I haven't tried Opera yet. Maybe when I have more time to learn it (and yes, *every* program has a learning curve).
  • Nomad559, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Firefox browser use slips in January

    http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1463926429;fp;2;fpid;1

    The open-source Firefox Web browser continues to flirt with the 10 percent market share milestone, but Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) regained lost ground among Internet users last month -- apparently at the expense of Firefox and Apple Computer's Safari, according to NetApplications.com.

    The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based market research group found that 85.31 percent of Internet users fired up Internet Explorer in January, up from 85.05 percent who did so in December 2005. Firefox, which was used by 9.57 percent of Web surfers in December, saw its share dip slightly to 9.5 percent. However, the latest update to Firefox, Version 1.5, was used by 4.02 percent of users in January, up from 2.45 percent in the prior month.
  • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"http://toolbar.msn.com/"

    But I need it standard on the application. I use roaming profiles, upon hundreds of machines, and plugins to web browsers don't work.

    And so, for this single reason alone, I must use firefox.
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0*****. That's too much for me to read.

    Gonna have to print that out.
  • acardboardbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Instead of getting into a flame war about what browser is better, take time to read the story. It's an interesting look into the birth and maturement of an open source community. It also did a good job of explaining some of the things I never understood about mozilla. dugg.
  • elroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@jkfan87

    "Seriously isewise, how much respect do you expect to get when you actually say idiotic things like "IE is the straight up cancer of the internet " All that does is make people laugh at you."

    it's pretty much the truth though. if you worked in web design you'd understand why. IE doesn't adhere to standards, and therefore has become its own de-facto standard. so you write your website properly, then you have to go through the code and add in a bunch of checks to see if they're using IE so you can spit out the broken code when neccesary.

    earlier on, microsoft was aiming to make their own unauthorized extensions to HTML and such, because they thought they could leverage the IE install base to make their own standard, and take control of the web. but that didn't work and now the lack of standard compliance is mostly just due to negligence on their part.


    that said, i don't like safari (WebKit, a fork of KHTML) for the same reason. i want to design a site by one standard and have it look the same in all browsers. is that too much to ask?


    i've been using mozilla since seamonkey 0.6. firefox is a nice product, i'm happy with it.
  • toadster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1it's Firefox not FireFox!!!1111!!!!!!1
  • willlangford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a very worthwile read!
  • AlmostEvil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I shall begin the countdown before Mastertech rears his head...

    Anyone care to take bets? How many more posts or minutes/hours before the moron arrives?
  • crispytown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quote from the blogs comments....

    Posted by: selvin at February 7, 2006 02:45 AM
    This post should be retitled "Ben Goodger Re-Writes Firefox History with Self as Hero".
    What I find strange about this history is the gap between Manticore and Firefox 0.6. A pretty significant period, no? Perhaps you didn't write about it because you weren't actually involved with founding of the project.
    An enjoyable read despite the obvious self-promotion.
  • RyanJones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mastertech is the masterspammer of the internet - he posted lies and uses illegal techniques to make people look like they support his article when infact they oppose it because its wrong.

    http://nanobox.chipx86.com/FirefoxFables/ (Ignore the link posted by the idiot, its his pittyfull attempt to hide this site from people ;))

    Ryan Jones
  • Shizlak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A movie in the style of Pirates of Silicon Valley is in order. go.
  • hordak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VERY good read! I guess I'm one of the few that liked the modern theme?
  • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Where Did FireFox Come From?"

    Hi, you must be new to the internet.
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