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GoDeep
2008-06-16 9:16:38 AM  
The Mozilla Foundation said it welcomed any contributors to the project, even from its arch rival Microsoft except "we don't want any of the people responsible for Internet Explorer 6. They could set back Firefox decades."

BWAHAHAHA!
 
Rynnakat
2008-06-16 9:22:23 AM  
so much awesome.

/loves me some firefox
 
This
2008-06-16 9:30:25 AM  
You're seriously greenlighting this bbspot shiat?
 
Giblet
2008-06-16 9:30:57 AM  
You folks DO know that BBSpot is a satire site, right?

I mean, NOTHING can save Vista. Sheesh.
 
tomlennon
2008-06-16 9:31:00 AM  
Rynnakat: so much awesome.

/loves me some firefox

you loves you some FF because its not MSFF. Once they sell out, you'll be complaing about how it's MSFfarkd up
 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-16 9:31:35 AM  
This: You're seriously greenlighting this bbspot shiat?

Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.
 
Macular Degenerate
2008-06-16 9:34:08 AM  
Welcome to 2006. (new window)
-1
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-16 9:35:18 AM  
That's hilarious.

/+1
 
GoDeep
2008-06-16 9:35:32 AM  
Pocket Ninja: Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

I figured it was shenanigans, based on the improbability of it all, but found the quote hilarious nonetheless.
 
Giblet
2008-06-16 9:36:44 AM  
Pocket Ninja: This: You're seriously greenlighting this bbspot shiat?

Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

And the fifth...
 
Giblet
2008-06-16 9:38:04 AM  
GoDeep: Pocket Ninja: Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

I figured it was shenanigans, based on the improbability of it all, but found the quote hilarious nonetheless.


Oh no... You can't weasel out of it that easy.

It's the walk of shame for you, trout boy.
 
GoDeep
2008-06-16 9:51:12 AM  
Giblet: It's the walk of shame for you, trout boy.

I'm used to it, and would gladly run the gauntlet if I deserved it.
 
Broz_Tito
2008-06-16 10:13:42 AM  
FF2 > FF3 > IE7.

I just want a simple tabbing browser, not a desktop suite.
 
Isotope
2008-06-16 10:18:11 AM  
Pocket Ninja: This: You're seriously greenlighting this bbspot shiat?

Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

Haha. Satire or not, I'm sure we'll be seeing that Firefox-Eating-Explorer logo again around here...
 
tallguywithglasseson
2008-06-16 10:46:43 AM  
Pocket Ninja: Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

I feel pretty sorry for them.
 
Giblet
2008-06-16 11:22:47 AM  
GoDeep: Giblet: It's the walk of shame for you, trout boy.

I'm used to it, and would gladly run the gauntlet if I deserved it.


Sewer horse saw what you did and knows what you deserve...
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Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-06-16 11:55:40 AM  
GoDeep: Pocket Ninja: Well it seems to have fooled the first two commentors.

I figured it was shenanigans, based on the improbability of it all, but found the quote hilarious nonetheless.

BPS Chilidogger thought it was real until I told him BBSpot was satire.

/he still hasn't registered
 
vonspringer
2008-06-16 12:11:58 PM  
I thought it was real until the "Awesome Bar" line. I guess that says something about how plausible it is that IE is just no longer worth Microsoft's time and money.
 
bhcompy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-16 12:18:18 PM  
in all seriousness, firefox has always been a bit clunky to me and ie7 actually does pretty well for me. but webbrowsers have always been a your mileage may vary type thing.. there really is no best, just what is useful to "you"
 
theurge14
2008-06-16 12:20:41 PM  
robbiedo: No ActiveX means fails for an awful lot of internal corporate applications.

ActiveX = the new COBOL?
 
British
2008-06-16 12:22:48 PM  
The only thing I use IE for is Myspace since Firefox seems to choke way too easily loading images, etc, while IE does it lightning fast.

However, IE's revised GUI makes it a lot more frustrating to use than previous versions. I can't even drag & drop a tab into the favorites section like I can easily do in FF.
 
Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-06-16 12:26:29 PM  
bhcompy: in all seriousness, firefox has always been a bit clunky to me and ie7 actually does pretty well for me. but webbrowsers have always been a your mileage may vary type thing.. there really is no best, just what is useful to "you"

Firefox's strength is in the addons and extensions. Until IE has Adblock, Noscript, and Farky, Firefox is the way to go.
 
Twigz221
2008-06-16 12:28:34 PM  
There are reasons to use any web browser. I use Firefox primarily because of the awesome extensions. It blocks ads better than any other browser if you have the right stuff running on it. And the way I have it set up, I never see a single application or application related request on facebook. So nice...

Also, funny article. Satire done well.
 
moothemagiccow
2008-06-16 12:29:38 PM  
there's a satire tag for a farking reason
 
Dorf11
2008-06-16 12:30:43 PM  
I'm inserting IE conditional comments into code so I'm really getting a kick out of wishing this was true.
 
degreeless
2008-06-16 12:40:27 PM  
Satire tag with sweat and dead man's balls.
 
jonny_q
2008-06-16 12:42:57 PM  
tomlennon: you loves you some FF because its not MSFF. Once they sell out, you'll be complaing about how it's MSFfarkd up

Once they sell out, I'll move on to whatever community takes Firefox's open-source code and forks it.

It's in Mozilla's best interested to stay open. If I'm not mistaken, anyone who contributes code shares in that code' copyright, so it would be impossible for Mozilla to not be open source without the consent of EVERY copyright holder.
 
TheGreyPiper
2008-06-16 12:53:46 PM  
Hm. Moderately amusing.
 
jiyuu_musouka
2008-06-16 12:54:33 PM  
The only thing I use IE for is a single website here at work that I have to use IE for. Other than that, Firefox.

/Tabbed browsing FTW
//No, I'm not getting IE7. Doesn't work with a different website needed for work.
///Plus I can't install software on the work computer.
////Firefox Portable FTW
//Think I have enough slashies?
 
bmxfelon420
2008-06-16 12:56:47 PM  
i still dont really see any reason to use firefox. There's an adblock addon for ie, and if you really wanted to you could mess with pg2 lists enough to get it to block all of your ads. FF2 sucked at loading images, and i really dont see any reason to use ff3. It's nothing special.
 
moothemagiccow
2008-06-16 1:08:50 PM  
bmxfelon420: i still dont really see any reason to use firefox. There's an adblock addon for ie, and if you really wanted to you could mess with pg2 lists enough to get it to block all of your ads. FF2 sucked at loading images, and i really dont see any reason to use ff3. It's nothing special.

It's called being on the cutting edge, rather than constantly catching up to it. IE7 is nowhere near standards compliance and the UI is plain garbage.
 
DjangoStonereaver
2008-06-16 1:11:49 PM  
BBSpot: It's like SuperDeluxe for people who know where the
'any' key is.....
 
SecretAgentWoman [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-16 1:19:06 PM  
moothemagiccow: there's a satire tag for a farking reason

You are just bitter that you fell for it.
 
mrmaster
2008-06-16 1:19:21 PM  
I love Firefox 3 and am looking forwarded to the official release tomorrow.
 
Farker4Life2
2008-06-16 1:24:05 PM  
Try Safari 3.1 for XP. I've run it since the beta and I like it better than IE and FF.

Not trolling, for me it's extremely fast once it finally loads (slow load time)
 
Ceph
2008-06-16 1:25:07 PM  
I'll be contributing about 70 downloads of FF3 tomorrow. Have to keep my staff busy. :)
 
Drew Hates Boobies
2008-06-16 1:30:23 PM  
I haven't had a lot of luck with Firefox 3. I used it for about 2 weeks, and it keep dropping videos, and freezing up my computer. I finally went back to FF 2.

What a great story!

/Still no cure for Internet Explorer
//I love my Firefox.
 
I Like Bread
2008-06-16 1:30:37 PM  
The programmers working on Internet Explorer 8 were excited. "I can't wait to stop working on IE8, farking thing sucks. Most people around here already use Firefox anyway and are sick of doing it Live," said browser programming team leader William Reily.

That was a stretch.
4/10
 
bmxfelon420
2008-06-16 1:31:31 PM  
bmxfelon420: i still dont really see any reason to use firefox. There's an adblock addon for ie, and if you really wanted to you could mess with pg2 lists enough to get it to block all of your ads. FF2 sucked at loading images, and i really dont see any reason to use ff3. It's nothing special.

in what way is the ui garbage? Do i need to do anything but type in the url box? open the favorites window? Click "stop" or "refresh" Not really. I dont use tabs, there's a reason that there's a taskbar, and that is for buttons to be on it, not in a stupid tab.
 
Tralfamadorian
2008-06-16 1:35:37 PM  
In my own experience, for the things I like to do, Opera performs noticably better. The features that I use are virtually the same on both Firefox and Opera.

If mockrosoft are going to use Firefox, fair enough but if they are actually going to develop plug-ins for it, who would be stupid enough to use them?

I'm looking forward to giving Firefox 3 a fair go anyway.
 
t3knomanser
2008-06-16 1:36:16 PM  
Farker4Life2: Try Safari 3.1 for XP. I've run it since the beta and I like it better than IE and FF.

Wait till Safari 4. The Javascript engine is insanely fast. Twice as fast as Safari 3 which is already faster than everything else.

bmxfelon420: i still dont really see any reason to use firefox.

Because Microsoft doesn't make a browser for any operating system worth using.

Broz_Tito: FF2 > FF3 > IE7.

Really? I adore FF3. It finally has reasonable performance (although it still uses only one thread for all Javascript execution), a far superior UI and the new address bar is the most awesome thing since tabbed browsing.
 
docmattic
2008-06-16 1:36:45 PM  
theurge14: robbiedo: No ActiveX means fails for an awful lot of internal corporate applications.

ActiveX = the new COBOL?

BBSpot posts = the new sure-fire FAIL thread?
 
barneyfifesbullet
2008-06-16 1:39:00 PM  
I continue to use Firefox even though my Firefox crashes more than Andy Dick and eats up too much memory when it does run well.
 
MasterSFV
2008-06-16 1:43:27 PM  
Copyright 1999-2008 by BBspot LLC
BBspot is a satire news and comedy source and meant to be funny. If you are easily offended, gullible or don't have a sense of humor we suggest you go elsewhere.
 
Explodo
2008-06-16 1:58:52 PM  
In spite of the farce, I have this to say about Firefox...that movie was okay when I was a kid.


Firefox runs like complete and utter crap on my linux system. I'll never bother to use any other browser other than IE on a windows system(most of my systems are XP Pro-64) unless it offers me a feature that I really want to use. I have had zero virus and malware infections in the past 5 years using IE and XP, so I see no reason to stop using IE. I really don't like tabs on my browser. I like separate windows and I don't really see any benefit to using tabs other than a slight overhead reduction.

I despise Vista with all of my being.
I like XP very much thank you.
My small business will not be switching to Vista unless we are forced to do so by customers.


As a software engineer, I can assure you that the only way to make a computer secure is to disconnect it from everything. Whatever the dominant browser or OS in the world is will be under constant assault and will be found to have flaws.
 
t3knomanser
2008-06-16 2:03:05 PM  
Explodo: I like separate windows and I don't really see any benefit to using tabs other than a slight overhead reduction.

There's no overhead reduction. The benefit is being able to group related pages together into a single window. Me? I'm a one-window-browser sorta guy.

Explodo: Whatever the dominant browser or OS

Market share doesn't matter as much as you think it does. One can make architectural and design decisions that promote security. Just because "there will always be flaws" doesn't mean that you can't compare the architectural choices between systems and evaluate their design in a completely abstract fashion.
 
skcubrats
2008-06-16 2:04:20 PM  
Vista arrgghh.. Microsoft Webmail does not work in IE on Vista, whereas we are always able to get it working on Firefox??
 
nyihockey
2008-06-16 2:06:09 PM  
barneyfifesbullet: I continue to use Firefox even though my Firefox crashes more than Andy Dick and eats up too much memory when it does run well.


This.
 
misery faded
2008-06-16 2:10:06 PM  
BBSpot makes baby Jesus cry.
 
Miggity
2008-06-16 2:21:09 PM  
BBSpot is the Gary Busey to The Onion's Nick Notle
 
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