Outfoxed – Today’s meme
Dear Reader,
I’m shocked! Today I open my daily del.icio.us list (as I do every morning, click in FireFox, Open in tabs) to see what is going on in the world. I notice that Pete Cashmore is dissing on FireFox. Ok, well, I’ve spoken to Pete a couple of times. I won’t claim to know him but I know he’s pretty technically savvy. So I’m concerned. Maybe he’s just having a bad day because he can’t get FireFox to work on his machine. Worse yet, he seems bent saying bad things about FireFox just because he can’t make it work. Pete, buddy, bubala, It’s not the Fox’s problem that you can’t handle the intricacies of a modern browser.
But this blog isn’t about Pete. It seems he is just picking up on the meme of the day (week?) Others too are showing their technical ineptitude by dissing on the Fox for what are obviously limitations of their own. Gees guys, get with the program, don’t be such whiny babies. The about:config page has a couple hundred options all neatly arranged in a single list for you to scroll up and down in till you find the exact option you are looking for. Talk about light weight, this is the holy grail (Sangrail?) of light-weight admin interfaces. No fancy buttons checkboxes or even help files. Just options for miles. How much more lightweight do you want to get?
Yes, IE7 is on it’s way out, just because they release it doesn’t make it good. IE has managed to rip off the cool features of FireFox but not it’s coolness. Yes, they do it faster, cleaner and lighter, so what? Ok, so they have more developers working longer hours to get the product out, they don’t heave heart. FireFox is loved by “all who use it on a daily basis and talk nice about it”. FireFox is the underdog, it’s expected to lose the browser wars. But FireFox has heart! (Maybe that’s what’s taking up so damn much memory on my machine…it’s got to put it’s heart somewhere.)
Until next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
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