it's only a browser
Okay. I'm weighing in on Firefox.
I'm not a huge fan of this browser. To be honest, the moment I find something better I'm dumping it. It's not that the browser is crap. There are some wonderful features like Morning Coffee and the like that make my web-life a little bit easier. It's free, which is a big bonus, it's secure…but there's one aspect of the Fox I can't get past; the user-base.
A quick google brought me this and a slew of similar mindless garbage. My biggest pet peeve with Firefox users is this Mac-like attitude of superiority. "Oh, you use IE? Poor you."
It gets worse when you come up against a Foxfanboy who also has his own website, in my IE days, I actually stopped visiting sites which would proudly tell me "Get Firefox, 'cause it's better than your crappy Micro$oft browser." The statement might be true, but if I'm using Internet Explorer, chances are I have a reason. Mainly because most large corporate websites are still pretty IE heavy, and Firefox makes a wonderful mess of my banks website.
In short, fuck Firefox. It's a program. Get over it.
I'm not a huge fan of this browser. To be honest, the moment I find something better I'm dumping it. It's not that the browser is crap. There are some wonderful features like Morning Coffee and the like that make my web-life a little bit easier. It's free, which is a big bonus, it's secure…but there's one aspect of the Fox I can't get past; the user-base.
A quick google brought me this and a slew of similar mindless garbage. My biggest pet peeve with Firefox users is this Mac-like attitude of superiority. "Oh, you use IE? Poor you."
It gets worse when you come up against a Foxfanboy who also has his own website, in my IE days, I actually stopped visiting sites which would proudly tell me "Get Firefox, 'cause it's better than your crappy Micro$oft browser." The statement might be true, but if I'm using Internet Explorer, chances are I have a reason. Mainly because most large corporate websites are still pretty IE heavy, and Firefox makes a wonderful mess of my banks website.
In short, fuck Firefox. It's a program. Get over it.
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That said, you're totally right. In my opinion Firefox is the best browser, so that's what I personally use. Frankly, I couldn't give a shit what other people use and I shouldn't have to - that's what standards are for.
as a designer i absolutely *have* to code for IE and firefox, and just to be sure i check my sites in maxthon and opera too. i've considered buying a minimac just to test sites with it, but mostly i'm thinking that mac users can go fuck themselves.
With mac slowly getting a bigger marketshare, I can see why you'd consider the Mini. You'd probably be better to grab an older unit off eBay for cheapo and just load Safari up on it….which by the way is lightyears worse than FireFox users think IE is….
Ironically, Firebug is one of the reasons my PC /w Firefox crashes so often: I'm pretty certain that it also has memory leaks (as well as FF itself). The developers really need to address the memory footprint FF has, it is getting ridiculous. It's probably also why the Wii has Opera on it and most mobiles have a lightweight instance of Opera… can you imagine Firefox Mobile?
AND Opera passes ACID2. Someone develop OperaBug!
Maybe I'll stick to it, maybe not. Fanboys are, as always, not helping.
…didn't this site used to have a login thing?