All I want to say is that I hate Firefox with all my heart and I really don’t get those who like it (specially those who like it over IE7) and try to convince others to use it too.

I’m a website developer and just because of firefox I have to spend twice as much time on making a website work with firefox than it would take to make the whole fucking site.

Someone before me posted about standards and poor programming. I agree, programmers should follow standards, but the thing is that even if you follow standards or not with Internet Explorer the result is the same while firefox fucks it all up.

I’m sick and tired of it and from some time now i don’t even give a rats ass on how would it look with firefox. I simply ignore it.

From the website developers point of view firefox is a nightmare and i don’t see how could that be any different from any other point of view.

I could go on with the pro’s and con’s but i really don’t feel the need to. My websites logs say it all!!

70% of the users* use IE and only 26% use FireFox
The remaining 4% are mostly Opera users or other linux based browsers.

So, if you’re not sure what to use or which it better just ask yourself “why only 26% of users* uses FireFox?”

*users on websites hosted on my server

mac: Whatcha doin, PC?
pc: I’m playing this new game.
mac: Oh really, which one?
pc: Any.

or, this one:

mac: Whatcha doin, PC?
pc: Getting a videocard upgrade.

xhtml standards and such, given firefox and *cough* opera, you have to take double the time to develop a web page just because after you make it work with IE – you have to spend some more time making it work with firefox, regardless of standards or not, IE being the most used browser, you want your site to be perfect with it. Another thing that firefox sucks with is its javascript, standards or not, ie’s DOM has more methods that are actually useful whereas with firefox you have to scan the whole DOM tree to get an element’s relative position to its parent.

As for Linux vs. Windows – nothing to argue about there, anyone who does is an idiot: You use windoze to play / work, and you use Linux TO RUN FUCKING WEBSERVERS AND SUCH (web, database, dns, routing etc). you do not run services on windows (be it 2003 server) because that sucks.

I got this page by typing:
“where the fuck is my old HOME PAGE??? If Firefox keeps doing this I’m gonna switch back!!!!!!!”
into the generic Firefox/google homepage that Firefox insists in replacing my OWN homepage with whenever I update.
Ordinarily this wouldn’t be such a problem but the last upgrade (which was a full Firefox download) actually deleted/lost all of my favorites and bookmarks.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Firefox and I hate IE but I still use IE for many things and I have never had a problem working on a system that had IE as the default browser.
Is one better than the other? Who cares? The better question should be: Does it do what you need it to do? Both Firefox and IE work just fine.
I don’t get any more virus’s from IE than I do in Firefox.. (zero in both, although my “Avast” virus software has caught a few things from time to time.
Right now my IE is refusing to update due to some past update not installing correctly… (an issue which Windows seems to not give a shit about) so I don’t have the latest IE and I don’t really care. My firefox works fine.
If only I could get it to quit changing my god damn home page!!!

Rant over…
Party on Garth

IE is an unstable piece of shit… but firefox, although being much more stable, doesnt work so well. Some pages dont open, some pages look messed up…

I hate IE due to the bad experiences i’ve had with it, but i won’t go all frothed up in my mouth, wearing a mozilla shirt, and say Firefox is better. It’s shit too…

IE3 for instance loaded pages initially far quicker than Netscape did at the time (or Nutscrape as I like to call it). Same connection, same computer. Netscape, however, traversed faster than IE3 once it was up and running.

Firefox (generally) renders faster than IE does now simply due to less bloat – the tradeoff is manual installation of many plugins.

It is quite possible (probable?) that IE will be slimmed down in the future (or perhaps a faster browser product from Microsoft) will come about and the cycle will just rinse and repeat like any other technology.

I honestly cant be fucked with it. I like things that work when you want to use them. IF I HAVE TO TYPE ONE MORE LINE OF CODE I SWEAR I’M GONNA WALK INTO MCDONALDS WITH AN UZI!!!

Heck while i’m at it:

FUCK MICROSHIT for making a more expensive just as crap product and…

FUCK LINUX NERDS who all have IQ’s of 160 but can’t make a single decent userfriendly os.

I’m just gonna buy a goddam mac.

…I hate you