Average User’s Opinion of Firefox
by tdaxp ~ June 30th, 2005
A review of Firefox from a very non-technological relative.
We’ve been using Firefox on new computer. Is SO slick to have high speed! Is going to be a HUGE timesaver! Just looking at photos my mom sent last night–didn’t have to wait 10 sec. or more for each photo to load–was instantaneous! What a relief!
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July 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 am
I've never been a fan of the open-source movement, since it often seems like just the efforts of a bunch of hackers who are jealous of Microsoft. But I downloaded Mozilla a little over a year ago just to try it, and I've never even considered going back to IE.
July 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 am
Mozilla's engine is competing with the KDE folk who provide KHTML to the community. Mozilla and KHTML both compete for inclusion in non-windows browser efforts. I believe that KHTML is winning more of those competition than Mozilla in the cell phone space and in non-windows browsers. IE remains the prohibitive favorite in the Windows space.
July 5th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Apple's choice of KHTML over Mozilla was startling, and may be indicitive of general trends.
I like both, and would take either over IE. I loved Konqueror, and wish it was easily available for Windows.