4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned 923
dave writes "In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, in light of the excellent Firefox 0.8 release it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view."
Re:Already? (Score:2, Funny)
About FireFox (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Lets help (Score:5, Funny)
http://validator.w3.org/
Wait a minute..
The tide has not turned (Score:1, Funny)
We have a long ways to go.
Deep n Chilled
4 years later (Score:2, Funny)
4 minutes later...it is time to slashdot this article...
OT, I Know, but... (Score:2, Funny)
I believed you up until you said that WebSphere was only using 76M
Re:The tide is high, but are we rolling on.... (Score:5, Funny)
yeah, but each time I'm with friends and they surf, and they get popups, I show them fire(bird-fox), and tabbed browsing.
I'm betting that Microsoft is getting customers faster than you're making friends.
Lacking Important features (Score:3, Funny)
Say I'm working at home from 8-10 in the evening, then the wife goes to bed, it's porn time baby! Off to the hun I go and have my way with the ladies. I NEED firebird/firefox to help me out here. I don't want to loose the tracks I've made doing my research, but I sure as hell don't want my wife knowing about my addiction to midgets.
If the guys at Mozilla can't fix this feature, they are going to fall flat on their face. Now if they could put in a hidden history for porn time, that would be even better.
firefox icons (Score:5, Funny)
the new logo appears to be a gigantic fox humping the earth [mozilla.org]
I wonder if that's the old IE 2 earth icon he's humping?
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Three words: automatic popup blocking (Score:3, Funny)
I work in IT, and I find it's not enough to simply install and configure the browser for them (modern theme is mandatory to catch their attention BTW -- I don't know why this isn't the default). You have to give them a real-world demonstration before it clicks for them.
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:2, Funny)
Life is always funny.
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:5, Funny)
You may just spark the curiousity of a few people out here. And stay away from my kitty!
Re:I disagree (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:1, Funny)
What? You mean coffee is hot?
FireBird? FireFox? ThunderFox! (Score:3, Funny)
Now they have renamed FireBird to FireFox (I hope they won't rename it again to FireMouse or FireWorm).
What's next? Easy - they are gonna rename ThunderBird to ThunderFox soon too. Well, after its stability will be fixed as well.
By the way, I wonder why Mozilla Calendar is neither a fox or a bird? Its even not a Caledarzilla, like Chatzilla. Personally, I loved all thoze Zillas, and at some point I even expected they would break the suite to Browzilla and Mailzilla, but they have decided to fly with birds. Not for long though.
Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I wish I could get my mom using firefox/thunderbird. She has a burning hatred for the word "mozilla", and I do truly mean the word, because she's been using mozilla for a few months, I just disguised it to look like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. She loves it, but she's convinced that mozilla is the devil or something.