Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th May 2007 17:43 UTC, submitted by shykid
Mozilla & Gecko clones "When Firefox launched in beta release five years ago, it burst on the open-source browser scene like a young Elvis Presley - slim, sexy and dangerous. Since then it has attracted millions of users, generally set the agenda for browser development and unseated Microsoft's IE as the de facto monopoly in the field. But, with Firefox 3.0 poised for release later this year, the 'IE killer' is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis, if increasing numbers of die-hard fans turned reluctant critics are any guide."
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RE: You can say the same for Opera
by Kroc on Fri 18th May 2007 18:17 UTC in reply to "You can say the same for Opera"
Kroc
Member since:
2005-11-10

People also have to realise that Firefox runs on top of a cross-platfrom UI library, XUL. Firefox runs on OSes as diverse as OS/2, RISC OS and BeOS. Firefox cannot be as perfect as a wholly native browser, like Safari; ergo, one must cut Firefox at least a bit of slack.

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nutshell42 Member since:
2006-01-12

People also have to realise that Firefox runs on top of a cross-platfrom UI library, XUL.

Yeah, if Opera was based on a multi-platform toolkit, it'd be slow, too!

Although admittedly Opera doesn't run on as many OSes as Firefox.

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codehead78 Member since:
2006-08-04

Trying to be funny? Opera runs on my phone and my Wii.

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bob8 Member since:
2006-07-13

I hope you are being sarcastic because Opera is based on a multi-platform toolkit. It uses Qt.

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