Thread: Firefox in NY Times

I thought the memory leak only existed in release before 1.0PR. I used to have the leak in 0.9 I believe, but not in 1.0 currently

>> they aren't going to change for a minority browser.
Firefox has gained more respect from more web designers than IE. Most would also start designing for firefox first and then hack it to work in IE. Things will change. Not because firefox is the minority, because it's more standard compliant. If web designers could make sites look good in IE, they sure can make them look as good (if not better) in firefox

IE is the minority when it comes to standards compliance

so I second alphaoide

Alpha and Bob,

I quite agree that IE allows many non-standards to work and FF does not. I also know that IE has 90% of the browser market.

Now, suppose I am the boss of a company with a vast website. My IT people come to me and say they need $n,000,000 to rewrite the whole thing so that users of FF can see it. I have a shareholders meeting tomorrow, they want dividends increasing. What am I going to tell the IT man?

Don't get me wrong, I applaud standards. I also live in todays world though, not some future paradise. Things hopefully will change, but if FF wants to be a major player, it has to "work" for the simple Joe Public, fr the sites he wants to look at, and right now, it does not.

Okay, not everybody will have the fund, but quite few major websites have redesigned and most importantly any new websites will likely to be compatible with firefox (and also IE) because of the increasing awareness of web designers for cross-browser design.
I kinda follow the web-designing business, they don't take the small share of firefox lightly. Many (if not all) respectable names in web-designing industry express their suppport toward firefox.

Arrggghhh .... Firefox is such a good browser, but it is pretty buggy, at least lately its been. 1.0 seemed a lot buggier than .9 for some reason. and yes, also get those memory crashes sometimes too ... but thats only if i leave my computer on for like a month.

i dont like browsers that come prebundled with spyware. I'll keep my opera.

i dont like browsers that come prebundled with ads. I'll keep my firefox.

>My IT people come to me and say they need $n,000,000 to rewrite the whole thing so that users of FF can see it. I have a shareholders meeting tomorrow, they want dividends increasing. What am I going to tell the IT man?


You're write. Though, very wrong.... Big companies with IT "men" build their site right the first time. Using the standards, not FrontPage extensions, IFrames, and countless other IE specific crap. Good try though.

edit: I challenge you, and anyone else for that matter, to show me a website of a "big" company that doesn't display correctly in FF and only works correctly in IE.

IE is wetardud

edit: on a side note, PC manufacturers (hp, dell, etc) are thinking about bundling FF with their PCs to eliviate the tech support needed for spyware/adware problems from their users using IE.

Scribbler, your argument would carry more weight if instead of "Average statistical comparisons" and "Recent studies", you provided links to independent verifiable sources. If you browse anti MS sites the worlkd over you find unsubstantiated claims like that.

Bobdole, I tried to post a link from FF to the BBC which didn't work, it demostrates a fault I have already posted on the FF forums, it was showing a film of the David Blunkett saga, but before I could do so, I happened to try adjusting the sound level, which wiped out the picture and a few seconds later froze completely...