Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

If you haven’t switched to Firefly, do it now.

Filed under: Science and Technology — Daniel Lemire @ 14:34

I’ve finally moved all my machines to Mozilla Firefox 1.0. It is, by far, the best browser I ever used, and it is totally, truely free. Unfortunately, the French version is lagging behind a bit. Unless you are running something else than Windows, Linux, or MacOS, you have no excuse to use another browser. None.

Update: Sean asks why I switched away from Konqueror. The main reasons are XML support and Gmail. Gmail doesn’t support konqueror for some reason, and I badly need a browser having decent support for XSLT. Also, there is a comment below saying that Firefox is not stable on OS X 10.2.

3 Comments »

  1. So what made you switch from Konqueror???? I myself use Safari as my main browser mainly because it is much faster than Firefox, and makes pages look much nicer for some reason…

    Comment by Sean — 28/9/2004 @ 14:47

  2. Sad to say that Firefox is not stable on OS X 10.2 — I got quite a few crashes and hangs, and GIFs were rendering as a big smeared-out mess. I’m sad about that because I was also blown away it. It is a fantastic piece of software.

    Comment by Lucas — 28/9/2004 @ 15:41

  3. Konqueror doesn’t support XML very well for one thing. Because I use XML a lot these days, I need decent XML support.

    Sad to hear that Firefox is not stable on OS X 10.2.

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 29/9/2004 @ 9:50

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