First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In

Since the announcement of Mozilla 1.0's release, at least a few journalists have been quick to turn the beast over and poke its belly. Tina Gasperson's review over at NewsForge makes an interesting contrast to CNET's review; strange how they give a rating that would barely merit a "C-" after describing Mozilla's robustness, standards compliance, speed and convenience features.

No, actaully, I wrote the first review

[Limburgher]

after I downloaded it, in an email to my wife. I ranted and raved about how awesome it is.

Oh, wait, did you mean the first published review?

hahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

CNET on popups:

this function doesn't discriminate, so it may disable pop-ups you actually want to see, such as the video pop-ups on the News.com front door.

Yeah fucking right CNET. Suck it!

Newspeak

[Mr Guy]

From The CNET article [cnet.com] Even stranger, both Mozilla and Netscape outran IE 6 in three of four tests.


From now on, "strange" will be defined as "something you would predict off the top of your head"

Re:Mozilla ain't that great.

[neal n bob]

this should be +5 informative. and +7 anally pleasurable.

Funniest line in the Cnet Review

[vjmurphy]

"The bad: Incompatible with some sites built for Internet Explorer"

Uh. Well. Duh.

Re:I think it's great.

[mshiltonj]

First open source stuff I've used.I'm running it at home on XP and at work on NT4.

Welcome aboard, friend! Now, about that XP...
;-P

Quick Review

[dasmegabyte]

I like the idea of Mozilla. But a day after installing it, I'm still using IE. Why? IE is more responsive...and that's what's important to me.

I do use it at home sometimes...but only because the wife hates it, and therefore she never checks my pr0n history (heh).

Re:it doesn't surprise me that CNET gave a 7

[Bearpaw]

But then there's audience too to calculate in too. I dare say that if Microsoft were to behave nicely and come out with a superier product that was priced fairly, some one here would find something to bitch about.

Well, I'd be pretty pissed that someone transported me to an alternate universe without giving me any warning.

Re:OK, but not all I wanted

[Violet Null]

and... connect the fucking dots.

Look! A puppy!

Re:Mozilla: useless for the intranet

[Fastball]

At work, web access is controlled by a Microsoft proxy server. The MS proxy server requires NTLM authentication support. Guess how many browsers support NTLM? (See also: how many Internet browsers has Microsoft released?)

Sucks for you.

Re:Newspeak

[eirikref]

> From The CNET article [cnet.com] Even stranger, both Mozilla and Netscape outran IE 6 in three of
> four tests.

To quote a friend: "That fourth test must have been the one where they tried to crash to browser as fast as possible"