Firefox - The Platform

Strudelkugel writes "Business 2.0 reports Firefox is becoming a problem for Microsoft. But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant. From the article: 'It all adds up to a business opportunity for startups, established software companies, and Web giants alike. Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don't stand to make money, Firefox's open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but do business on the Web.'"

Thank you EBERLIN!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I make a dash to the Slash to the D-O-T
Coz them news for nerds makes sense to me
So let this serve as a warning to the spammers and trolls
You may have a fat pipe but you ain't got bawls.

There's a new manifesto by ESR
And the stats of the watts of a hybrid car
I gots love for Perens and miguel, et al
And I voted CowboyNeal on the Slashdot Poll

I'm Microsoft bashin' like every single day
Coz the OS got holes and Exploder's teh gay
Now SCO's talkin' trash so I give firefox a ride
To reply as a Coward so I can hate on McBride

I will flame you with language I won't say to your face
And I bet you can't guess who gots all your base
There's one way to know if your server is rotting
Just post a link and you'll get a slashdotting

You can mod me down coz I'm a karma whore
And I'm a decorated veteran of a recent flame war
Where they fought about an app with a K or a G
And a heated debate on what was meant by "Free"

As a slashbot, when Linux receives a threat,
My palms begin to sweat and my evil bit is set
You best believe I'll be posting a rant
And I'll be surfin' Slashdot 'til my mom says I can't.

Shhhh! We awe hunting wabbits...

[coupland]

People need to be vewy, vewy quiet, we awe hunting microsoft...

Re:Shhhh! We awe hunting wabbits...

[sburnett]

Shouldn't that be "Mycwosoft"?

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Re:Huh? Who isn't online yet?

[WarwickRyan]

Be thankful. Our Doctors in the UK are still using MS-DOS 6.22 and Word Perfect.

Re:no, the cat HASN'T got my tongue.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey /. - why not let the good folks at Microsoft IE blog [msdn.com] know your feelings? I'm sure Microsoft IE blog [msdn.com] would love to hear from you. You know you want to share all your deep dark browser fantasies with Microsoft IE blog [msdn.com]. Go on, give Microsoft IE blog [msdn.com] a try...

Re:Memory leaks.

[Anonymous Coward]

The thing about open-source projects is that they place much more QA into the hands of their users and other developers. If you don't file a bug report [mozilla.org], it wil never get fixed.


Yeah... that's why it gets the impression of being a permenant Beta version of everything...

MyApplication v. 0.99.9.99.9.99

Re:let it be just a browser

[DrVxD]

> everybody seem to try to have it substitute his OS

I like FireFox, but it ain't never gonna replace XEmacs as my OS of choice ;)

Re:Not firefox. Try google

[toddestan]

A web browser is not an operating system. I repeat a web browser is not an operating styem!

It is if you ask Microsoft!

Re:Cute

[YE]

The moron gave me the following reasons why ASP.NET was to be the "entlösung" to all problems...

The Entlösung? As in "solution involving ducks"? Or "the Duck solution"? Is there a Monty Python + Holy Grail reference I'm missing here?

Re:no, the cat HASN'T got my tongue.

[Compact Dick]

But who are the two others ?

Microsoft Internet Explorer and iexplore.exe.

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True 'nuff

[stealth.c]

The features it has now are just FINE. Stop adding them. We could probably even do with fewer. I am curious though. What makes you say it "isn't that great?" It's far and away better than IE (imho), and it doesn't feel as clunky as the Mozilla Suite. It does everything I want it to and for me it's been a pleasure to use. In fact I use it exclusively. What flaw am I overlooking? Is it something that only anal-retentive coders notice?

But of course--security problems or not--almost anything is better than IE, eh? eh? ;)

LOTR. Be ent-ertained.

[tepples]

The Entlösung? As in "solution involving ducks"? Or "the Duck solution"?

No, it's a solution involving walking, talking trees :-)

Re:no, the cat HASN'T got my tongue.

[Luser5]

I dont understand why people are comparing ActiveX and XUL. Mozilla based products have a plugin system similar to ActiveX, that's the way Flash, Java, Acrobat, SVG, Quicktime, Realplayer, even Windows Media Player run, but it has nothing to do with XUL.

ActiveX is dead. God bless XAML!. The enemy of Firefox+XUL+Javascript is IE7+XAML+.NET, and because .NET is a secure platform as Java is (ok, stop laughing), and XAML is XUL using .NET components, and .NET will be embedded in every MS OS then every XAML web app will run out-of-the-box on any Windows desktop, that's the real threat to Firefox/Mozilla. Oh, and don't forget every mobile device running a MS OS, there's no embedded XUL engine to run there.

Sure XAML+.NET will be a security nigthmare, but security wasn't a problem to MS till now. Hire more marketing guys and let them convince the world. Just write your XAML file, give your customers the URL, and it's done!.

Re:Good Show, Mozilla!

[pommiekiwifruit]

This was Bill Gates response to the Justice Department ruling... from now on, Windows does not perform illegal operations!