Comments on: FireFox Copying IE

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:36:51 +0000

And some of us just don’t get the choice as M$ now refuse to develop IE on the Mac – good thing though it was always a pig to work with. FF isn’t spectacular on the Mac but it does for when Safari won’t handle a web site.

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:41:31 +0000

I too agree that calling it 2.0 is a stretch. On the other hand, I’m glad to see Firefox not changing just for the sake of change. And I’m still using Safari and Camino anyway. Opera 9 is quite an impressive browser, nevertheless.

Oh, and “Have been in IE7 for more than 6 months” doesn’t quite work. IE7 has not actually been released. Will it and FF 2 come out at the same time in final release? Not sure. But I’m glad to see that Firefox has some decent competition again.

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:18:36 +0000

From the feature list I have seen, calling it 2.0 is a bit of I stretch. I’ll give you that. But it’s not bad marketing, people like seeing updates regularly. If they could just figure out how to leave a little bit of RAM for other applications it would be such a huge update it could skip 2.0 and head right to 3.0.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:16:14 +0000

I agree. Which is why I’ve made the switch to Opera 9. It’s beautiful.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:48:15 +0000

To be fair, there have been more than a dozen releases of IE since 2001. Just not for PC platforms (though IE6 XP SP2 was a major, major overhaul).

I hear what you’re saying, however the reality is that the IE7 team has only been around for a year as well.

Either way, purely from a user perspective, you’d expect 2.0 to be a fairly big leap from 1.5. If nothing else, design-wise, right?

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:43:56 +0000

I think you need to also look at dev cycles. FireFox 1.0 launched in November 2004 and has had an update in the form of 1.5 since the release. Internet Explorer 6 was released in August 2001 and has only gotten security patches since. That’s 5 years of no new features right now and IE 7 isn’t out yet.

So I don’t think it’s fair to compare the point releases of these two, Microsoft has had almost 6 years to work on things. It should be a big update.

I’m looking forward to both updates.