Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 9th Jul 2006 01:32 UTC, submitted by Tom H.
"Recently, I have been pondering why is Firefox so darn popular? This is a question that I honestly ask myself sometimes, often while browsing the web from within the browser itself. The real trick is that there are so many different ways to answer this." More of the editorial here. Additionally, the first set of release candidates for Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 have been posted to the Mozilla FTP of nightly releases.
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RE[7]: There is a more interesting question
by deathshadow on Mon 10th Jul 2006 12:49
in reply to "RE[6]: There is a more interesting question"
Member since:2005-07-12
>> firefox was not able to zoom more than one level, ie you cannot use ctrl+wheel of mouse to quickly zoom in and out (multiple successive Ctrl+ (+))
HUH??? I zoomed in 9 or ten 'levels' - and BOTH browsers had more in them... with no issues zooming in or out... What the devil are you talking about? Besides, those screencaps were to illustrate nothing to do with how much you can zoom in/out or the load involved, but the QUALITY of zooming - in that with Opera EVERYTHING gets resized, while Firefox only resizes the text (leaving the site in the same crappy little column down the middle of the screen)
Was anyone out there able to find a coherent thought in hraq's post? Because I'm pretty well stumped by that one.
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2005-07-06
For the pictures you take for osnews, these are not good for comparision, to truely compare between the zoom levels you have to open multiple web sites:
1. filled with text
2. filled with images and text
3. filled with images
4. filled with animations (flash)
and then try to zoom many times on both programs that you compare.
In the previous example "http://battletech.hopto.org/images/firefux/FF_Zoom.jpg" firefox was not able to zoom more than one level, ie you cannot use ctrl+wheel of mouse to quickly zoom in and out (multiple successive Ctrl+ (+))
One might ask why this is a big deal?
Because, you get very slow browsing experience once you run 3 services on the background while you have 10 web pages opened at once, but you don't experience this slowness with opera (opening new tabs, closing opened tabs and reponding to addressbar writting and zooming text larger, switching tabs,.... and more).