Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers 475
An anonymous reader points out an interview with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard, regarding the future of Firefox and how it affects other browsers. It's an Austrian site, so forgive the comma abuse. From derStandard:
"It's sort of interesting though, part of our strategy is to make sure, that we continue making change and the indirect effect of this is that Microsoft continues to have to do releases, because if we get so far ahead that we're able to drive the platform they are not able to keep up and keep their users. I mean, we have this joke which says 'Internet Explorer 7 is the best release we ever did,' because they would not have done it, if we would have not built Firefox. And the same is true for Apple, they are doing a lot to keep up with us. Safari 3.1 is a good example, as far as we see it, the only reason they did this release was that Firefox 3 would come out and have Javascript speed which would be twice as fast as theirs, cause that's how it was before. So by pushing other people to make releases we can go on our mission to make sure the web stays healthy."
Re:fp (Score:0, Funny)
competition breeds improvement (Score:5, Funny)
I always maintained that Win2K was such a good OS specifically because of the competition Microsoft was getting from open source, they didn't want to be caught napping and wake up to find Linux as a good desktop solution. This theory kind of fell apart with Vista, I have no idea what that steaming pile is in response to.
Opera (Score:5, Funny)
And Opera is feeling so pressured by Firefox that it is systematically forced to copy Firefox's features months and even years before Firefox releases them... ^_^
Re:Opera (Score:5, Funny)
Should be: Effect of Opera on Firefox (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Way to go FF! (Score:5, Funny)
middle-click-to-close on tabs comes to mind
It's hard to tell between a left-click, middle-click, and right-click on a one button mouse...
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:3, Funny)
Was 4 windows and 40 tabs it seems, but no-one cares anyway :D
Ow, my commas (Score:5, Funny)
I never knew, that German, was quite so, comma-happy.
With all the plugins and extensions ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ow, my commas (Score:3, Funny)
All I know is that I must be some kind of fucking genius, because I've never taken a German class in my life, and I understood it just fine.
Re:Ow, my commas (Score:1, Funny)
Re:wow; Big pair on him. (Score:5, Funny)
Apple released Safari 3.1 as a reaction to Mozilla releasing Firefox 3 nearly three months later? That's a rather creative way to spin things.
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:5, Funny)
$ sudo apt-get install ie
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ie
$ sudo apt-get install internet-explorer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package internet-explorer
Erm, well I guess I have to use Firefox then! ;-)
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:2, Funny)
--- Firefox_vs_IE (revision 1)
+++ Firefox_vs_IE (revision 3)
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Me: You should try FireFox.
Friend: Why?
-Me: See the tabs? Makes things a whole lot easier to keep track of.
+Me: *Browses to MySpace* Notice anything different?
+Friend: Where are all the annoying ads?
+Me: It's called AdBlock.
Friend: Awesome!
FireFoxUsers++;
Re:What astonishes me... (Score:3, Funny)
Old joke. Apologies to whoever I ripped it off from.
Internet Explorer: Where do you want to go today?
Firefox: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
Opera: Are you guys coming or what?