A somewhat barbed comment; Firefox has been usable all along (well, if it *wasn't*, then what exactly are Internet Explorer/Safari et al? Their functionality is pretty similar in a more general sense), certainly since the 0.8 release.
ian
November 17, 2004 7:25 PM
oh, i agree; it was actually a reference to mozilla 1.0, which really wasn't…
I would disagree there. too; the nicer features of Firefox are really just edges-smoothed versions of their equivalents in Mozilla Seamonkey, which I only abandoned for Firefox a couple of months ago. One thing which I think is a massive improvement however is loading speed; not loading all the extra components at once really does help.
Ian
November 20, 2004 1:28 PM
Mozilla 1.0 had a very nasty habit (at least on Linux) of blowing up when it encountered sites that used very strange HTML. So, on many occasions, I had to resort to Navigator (and if you've ever used the Linux version of Navigator, you'll understand the pain) to view certain pages. Not entirely its fault, but I would have preferred an option other than 'dump core and laugh at the user'.
A somewhat barbed comment; Firefox has been usable all along (well, if it *wasn't*, then what exactly are Internet Explorer/Safari et al? Their functionality is pretty similar in a more general sense), certainly since the 0.8 release.
oh, i agree; it was actually a reference to mozilla 1.0, which really wasn't…
I would disagree there. too; the nicer features of Firefox are really just edges-smoothed versions of their equivalents in Mozilla Seamonkey, which I only abandoned for Firefox a couple of months ago. One thing which I think is a massive improvement however is loading speed; not loading all the extra components at once really does help.
Mozilla 1.0 had a very nasty habit (at least on Linux) of blowing up when it encountered sites that used very strange HTML. So, on many occasions, I had to resort to Navigator (and if you've ever used the Linux version of Navigator, you'll understand the pain) to view certain pages. Not entirely its fault, but I would have preferred an option other than 'dump core and laugh at the user'.