Firefox Soon To Be Stomped Out Of Existence

[clintonG]

Bill Gates has made it official and the IEBlog [1] confirms IE7 is on the
way.
Still, I think having two competing browser initiatives is a good idea even
though I will mourn the passing of Firefox (Gecko). Its so sad when children
lose their lives before they even get a chance to enjoy what life has to
offer <sniff /> even if the child was the prodigy of and also named after a
little rat [2]. <sniff />

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[1] [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx[/url]
[2]
[url]http://images.google.com/images?q=gecko&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLD,GGLD:20 04-31,GGLD:en&sa=N&tab=ii&oi=imagest[/url]

[Nancy Gill]

Or perhaps Firefox is so much better that people will laugh at IE7. After
all, they don't have the luxury of tying it to a Windows OS cause the next
OS is more than a year away. I think this is a good thing .. IE has to
compete on the same level this time.


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[middletree]

What are you talking about? When IE first came out, it wasn't tied that
closely to the OS. Version 3 and 4 were the ones that were out when it took
over Netscape, and there was some separation between the browser and the OS.

But competition is always a good thing, and I think it would be a bad thing
if either of these browsers went down for the count.


"Nancy Gill" <nancy@webwish.com> wrote in message
news:cv0eaf$bva$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Or perhaps Firefox is so much better that people will laugh at IE7. After
> all, they don't have the luxury of tying it to a Windows OS cause the next
> OS is more than a year away. I think this is a good thing .. IE has to
> compete on the same level this time.
>
>
> --
> Nancy
>
>

[Nancy Gill]

> What are you talking about? When IE first came out, it wasn't tied that

> closely to the OS. Version 3 and 4 were the ones that were out when it

took

> over Netscape, and there was some separation between the browser and the

OS.

I'm talking about the fact that when I upgraded to Win 2K Pro .. IE 5 was
part of the package. When I upgraded to Win XP Pro, IE 6 was part of the
deal. Some separation? If you start with a clean machine, they install
together. I don't see that as a lot of separation.

>
> But competition is always a good thing, and I think it would be a bad

thing

> if either of these browsers went down for the count.

I agree with you here .. competition is always a good thing .. Firefox
adheres more to standards .. we'll see what Microsoft does with this next
version.


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