forbes.com — But don't be fooled. Firefox has become one of the most important pieces of software around today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications living on their hard drives to a communications device able to connect with applications living on distant servers. The new browser has plenty of these soon-to-be-ubiquitous features...
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rudy23Jun 18, 2008
I think the author is obsessed with the word ubiquitous
suminderjiJun 18, 2008
Opera 9.5 = 6.7MBFirefox 3 = 7.8MBYep, seems very bloated :P
Closed AccountJun 18, 2008
Since you're a developer I'm suprised you aren't impressed by Firefox range of add-ons.
ut2k4kingJun 18, 2008
Didn't the RC's still have debug software running in the background? It might just be my imagination, but FF3 final seems to use less ram than RC3 did.
robruizJun 19, 2008
One reason why there are still many users of IE is because of certain web apps works only on IE and companies are forced to use IE.
aeooJun 19, 2008
"Open Source has nothing to do with extensions. Developing plugins does not require access to the source."That's wrong. It is part of the culture in the open source movement to write modular code. Plug-in architectures are more popular in the open source culture than in closed source. In fact, most non-crappy extension languages I can think of are open source: lua, python, guile, javascript, etc.Secondly, having access to the source code makes writing extensions easier for two reasons. You can gain total understanding of how your extension interacts with the base code and second, when you write an extension for an open source project you don't feel all icky and dirty writing free code for some corporate entity that's profiting from it and keeping their code closed.So, while it may not be totally obvious, open source does have something to do with the extension mechanisms proliferating among open source projects.
aeooJun 19, 2008
Firefox dominates in technical and user experience achievements over IE. It's vastly more standard compliant, it has better dev tools than IE, it is faster and uses less memory than IE, and it has many, many features IE lacks. That's how it dominates. That users haven't switched to it is a testimony to users' ignorance and inertia.
Closed AccountJun 19, 2008
I couldn't download on Download Day, I tried clicking download several times and I still got nowhere :(