Firefox Reviewed in the Globe and Mail

Eric Giguere writes "Today's Globe and Mail has a Firefox review titled A bug-free surfing zone in its Friday review section. Slashdot readers probably won't like the last phrase, though: 'Until Firefox finds a way around that, you might have to keep Internet ExplORer around -- just for emergencies, of course.'"

My favorite Firefox story

[Staos]

Microsoft used Firefox [nwsource.com] in a press image they sent out promoting their MSN Search.

Well some things

[Anonymous Coward]

The payroll system for my employer is written entirely in ActiveX. There's really no way to do that in the fox.

Mac IE is removed easily

[Vandil X]

It's integrated into the OS. The only way to get rid of it completely is to uninstall Windows.

On my Mac, I just drag the "Internet Explorer" icon from my /Applications folder to the trash.

It's uninstalled :)

Re:My favorite Firefox story

[Anonymous Coward]

My favorite is this article...

"A bug-free surfing zone [...] Firefox isn't perfect. It still has some bugs"

Did the editors who came up with the headline even READ the article?

Wait, I thought only Slashdot editors did that... GOOD LORD, "Globetechnology" is a front for Taco!

Re:Windows Update

[Anonymous Coward]

Some of us just want a good browser to use. We're not here to buy into your bogus Linux religion.

Re:Devil's advocate vs. Go Firefox!

[kingjosh]

Previous place of employment: Me: Can I switch to Firefox? Boss: What's that? Me: A browser that is much better than IE. It's open source and doesn't suffer from all the malware that IE does. Boss: No, its open source so it might be insecure. We've always used IE, we need to stick with that. Me: Can I install Thunderbird? Boss: What's that? Me: An email client that's much better than Outlook Express. It's free too! Boss: Definitely not. Me: What about OpenOffice.org? Boss: What's that? Me: An open source, easy to use Office suite. It's free and the database inside the spreadsheet is really powerful. You can save things like you are in MS Office, but it doesn't suffer from a lot of the problems, like broken AutoCorrect. Boss: No way, it could be hard to uninstall. Me: Fuck it, I quit.

IE Speed

[AVryhof]

Firefox is great and all, but it's so slow compared to IE...Just look how fast those popup windows open, so fast that I can't even click the close button fast enough to keep another 60 or so from coming up.

If only Firefox could do that....oh wait, what popup windows?

Re:negatives of the review

[STrinity]

Firefox is version 1 while IE is version 6, they are 5 versions apart (in IE's terms though ;)

Yes, but given current rates of development, Firefox will reach 7.0 before IE.

Re:Write the author and politely help him

[Anonymous Coward]

In the future, please refrain from using meaningless terms like the "open source community". Users and developers of open source software have existed for as long as there have been computers, and there are many different motives and justifications for open source software development and use.

Also, in the future, please refrain from assuming that anything posted in a /. comment is going to be taken seriously.

Hamfisted attempts to censor meaningless comments written by anonymous people on a shitty website is not going to make open source software any more popular.