Opera Cries, Firefox Parties, IE Sucks

Comments off · October 19, 2006 at 8:34 pm · Hot Web Topics, Software Help

Well the browser wars are heating up, so I thought I would give you a little inside information from the front lines of the war.

On the Opera front, they are still being cry babies:

It doesn’t make sense to Lie. “IE 7 comes out and adds tabbed browsing, but Opera has had that for 10 years.” He agreed that ideas should be shared — in fact, said Lie, Opera cooperates with both Mozilla and Apple, which develops its own Safari browser — but he’d like his company to get credit where credit is due.

“Credit is due Opera, and we’d like to see that reflected in market share,” Lie said.

Oh cry me a river!

Opera might have invented the browser tab, but Mozilla perfected it. Want proof? If they hadn’t, my other Web site (and eBook) would have been called Opera Facts.

Internet Explorer 7 launched today as well - and then fell flat on its face again. It is nice to see that Microsoft isn’t feeling the preassure to rise above any occasion.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the “mhtml:” URI handler. This can be exploited to access documents served from another web site.

Yes, that is correct. You upgraded to get a security threat. Yippee!

Now Firefox 2 seems to be the only browser that is having any success as of late. They are too busy planning celebration parties to care about what the other two browsers out there are doing.

There are now more than 300 parties registered worldwide!!! If you haven’t signed up to host or attend a Firefox 2 release party, head over to the Firefox Party Tool and do it today. We’ve also got Party Shirts! in the US Mozilla store. We’ll get them up at the international store ASAP. This is a limited run, only 1,000 shirts, and we’re selling them below cost, so get ‘em before they’re gone.

So there you have it, the latest news from the war on browsers. Who’s side are you going to stand with?

 

IE7 Doesn’t Do It

Comments off · August 31, 2006 at 6:04 pm · Hot Web Topics

Internet Explorer 7 still just does not do it for me. I have been playing around with the latest release for a few days now, and I can’t get into it. The interface is OK, but nothing to write home about. In fact, it looks like what Firefox would have looked like - if the Microsoft team developed it.

There is no reason to soften the blow, it is a turd with a pretty pink bow. Simple as that.

I finally had to give up on it today though, because I realized it was the cause for FeedDemon going all screwy on me. I went back to IE6, and my problems went away.

On the other hand, I have been using the latest betas of Firefox 2 and I have to say I like what I see. New features, faster loading (for me, at least) and pretty to look at. Where could you go wrong? Then again, when it comes to Firefox, I have all my facts straight.