My earlier post caused a 20% drop in subscribers, but a 50% jump in traffic. Heh.
I guess you can’t please everyone by saying a given piece of software is fantastic, has well deserved kudos and is showing IE a thing or two.
Good thing I don’t care about these things, eh? 
February 22nd, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Always one to stir the pot a bit Jeremy.
Strangely enough I now use IE at work and Firefox at home (we don’t have Firefox as an approved piece of software in the office), and I am finding it an interesting experience. Mainly due to the tabs and extensions.
I use lots of tabs in Firefox and have several really cool extensions that help enhance my online experience. I am finding my mind has to consciously think about which machine I am on so I know what features I have at my disposal.
Overall I find Firefox a much better experience and wish I could have it in the office.
February 22nd, 2005 at 7:04 pm
This isn’t serious about the dropping?!
I have to use IE at work and would prefer Firefox, but this is mainly because I am so used to efficiently use Firefox (and at the same time am so bound to it), that this is an everyday struggle. There are just some keyboard combos which don’t work the way they should be working (and this is a MS product by heart *grr*). And of course the much more to worry about security things.
But that is me and my browser. If you like to stay on IE just because it does feels better for you, that’s absolutly your choice. There is only one reason why I would ‘dare’ to be upset is when you would make things only available to IE users. But I somehow doubt that.
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February 23rd, 2005 at 6:37 am
Try the web dev toolbar that thing is awesome.
February 23rd, 2005 at 7:07 am
Not everybody needs everything, and not everyone even likes it as a toy.
I don’t use the dev bar, I have adapted the things I might need out of it in a way _I_ like to work with them.
As for mouse gestures: Dislike them. Not my kind of working. Which does not mean they are useless. They are just useless to me. As I asume tabbed browsing is to Jeremy.
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:11 am
I certainly wouldn’t stop reading a blog because someone used IE, and I’m not one to jump on the “hate all Microsoft” bandwagon, either but I must admit to being surprised by anyone that would choose something so obviously lacking over a much better tool.
On the other hand, I use a PC and think Macs are better. I’m sure there are Mac people wondering what’s wrong with me!
I concur with the main sentiment: do what feels right for you. But try and skip the trolling. It’s unbecoming.
February 23rd, 2005 at 10:57 am
One’s so obviously lacking is another’s holy grail. People say things like so obviously lacking about things I have done, in contrast to their own. That doesn’t make it so. It makes it an opinion and not a fact.
February 23rd, 2005 at 1:53 pm
I have been using Mozilla products before Firefox came out.. I used the older Mozilla browser because IE just wasn’t cutting it for me.
February 23rd, 2005 at 4:59 pm
As a Firefox user (since the Phoenix days) I’m more compelled to continue reading your blog because you don’t use Firefox. It’s interesting to see the problems that people find with certain applications that others swear by. It’s also real nice to see someone take a stand that isn’t popular at the given time.
February 24th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
YOU FORGOT ONE BIG DISADVANTAGE of FIREFOX….
i am all for open source ( i develop on Linux and Java) ….however on my Windows box which i use for everyday surfing etc… I use I.E> ….why????
) However i will say that i think Firefox has a better GUI and seesm to render pages more consistently according to standards…. so i use both …but mainly IE …my open source friends cannot hear this
I dunno if its me but Firefox seems to open new windows alot slower than IE, escpecially on startup and I even notice that it parses pages slower…yet people claim the exact opposite. I think IE has the advantage of running more native to the Windows OS( since winddows is closed to Firefox
February 25th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
John, I found this with one custom skins that I was running on Firefox and after some investigation the files that made up the skins were fairly large (compared to other ones), I removed the skin at it is back to it’s old self. I this is one of the draw backs with Firefox, which could limit its use in the corporate world. Firefox’s ability to have lots of plug-ins customisations etc will concern corporate IT. If these features could be locked down then corporates would be happy.
February 26th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
Is that a fact?
Pot meet Kettle.
February 26th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
The term “so obviously lacking” is an opinion. Hence my comment, as an opinion is not a fact – and yes, that is a fact as is proved by the defintions of the words fact and opinion. A fact would be something like “Firefox just released version 1.0.1″ whereas an opinion would be something like “Internet Explorer is so obviously lacking as compared to Firefox 1.0.1″.
So, no pot and kettle here, sorry.