2004-11-30

Still More on Mozilla et cetera

I'll open this post with a quote from the Wall Street Journal:

Browsing safely: I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead Mozilla Firefox, which is free at www.mozilla.org. It's not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing, which allows multiple pages to be open on one screen, and a better pop-up ad blocker than the belated one Microsoft recently added to IE.
If mainstream newspapers are straight out suggesting that you "dump" IE, and immediately after name an open source product, things are going well.
Chris Crews, someone somehow involved in the Mozilla Foundation (well he's cool enough to have the Mozilla category of his blog appears to be syndicated onto Planet Mozilla), posted this article. He certainly isn't a happy camper.
Here's some photos from Netscape offices (or at least they seem to be that). I'm not quite sure what they mean either. These were posted on Ben Goodger's (he wrote the firefox 2.0 roadmap, so he's cool) blog. The best are #5 and #6. UPDATE: Now I'm confused. These appear to be fromover a year ago-WTF?
Here's another take on the situation.
Here's some screenshots of the new netscape thingie.

Somewhat unrelated: Here's a funny story from back when Netscape had over half of the web browser market, well before they decided to release an open source Mozilla browser (based on Netscape 5.0 code).

PS: If you haven't already, read some of my earlier posts today for background info.

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