Re:Firefox May Already Be Dead
by antirez on Saturday March 21, 2009 @05:54PM
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I think this guy is right, because unlike the IE -> Firefox switch that is slow, Firefox -> Chrome switch can be really fast. And this is just the start. From the user point of view Firefox is almost unchanged since 1.0, I wonder what they really did in all this time: stability, new parts of the standard implemented, better page rendering, and so on, but this is not a DNS server or an SMTP server, it's a browser. You need to go forward in a way that the user can touch, and improve the user life. Just what Chrome is doing.
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Firefox has changed lots since 1.0, you probably just don't realise it because it's taken a while. Off the top of my head:
* Major look and feel changes in 3.0
* Spell checking in 3.0
* Performance improvements throughout the browser.
* Improved support for adding/removing plugins
* Allow searching of addons from within Firefox
* Improved Mac OS X integration.
* The Awesomebar.
* Completely revamped everything to do with bookmarks.
* Improved options window
* Revamped Downloads window, with download progress in the bottom right.
Coming soon in 3.5: Private browsing, dragging tabs into new windows. For a lightweight browser, this adds up.