Eight Years of Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by fafner » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:37 PM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #2

Eight years since 1.0, though its history dates back a lot further. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox

It's actually more than 10 years now. The first binaries of Phoenix were available in September 2002.

I don't remember when I exactly switched. But I remember that Mozilla was a huge pile of bloat, Galeon had some internal trouble, and Konqueror/KHTML had problems with several websites (mostly JS stuff IIRC).

Firefox is still my favorite browser!

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by caipre » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:53 PM UTC

barking wrote: post #6

I like firefox a lot, it's the browser I use almost all of the time. I really like the way firefox allows me to sync bookmarks across devices. I really like the fireftp add on. I don't like the way firefox makes me wait sometimes while it updates. It's really hard to figure out some things. One time I accidentally forgot to press the tab key after entering my username on log-in and entered my password in the username…

For those who don't know, it's possible to remove an autocomplete suggestion by highlighting it and pressing the delete key. This works for HTML form fields and address/search bar suggestions.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by cheeaun » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

I'll never forget the first time I try Phoenix 0.1, all the way to Firefox 1.0, and still continue using it now with version 18 (Aurora).

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:16 PM UTC

ed_blackburn wrote: post #5

I remember being at uni (UWE Bristol), downloading the zip and exporting to program files. My mates thought I was crazy until they saw tabbed browsing...wow!

The first time I used tabbed browsing was using Opera waaaaay too many years ago. :)

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by barking » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

caipre wrote: post #12

barking wrote: post #6

I like firefox a lot, it's the browser I use almost all of the time. I really like the way firefox allows me to sync bookmarks across devices. I really like the fireftp add on. I don't like the way firefox makes me wait sometimes while it updates. It's really hard to figure out some things. One time I accidentally forgot to press the tab key after entering my username on log-in and entered my password in the username…

For those who don't know, it's possible to remove an autocomplete suggestion by highlighting it and pressing the delete key. This works for HTML form fields and address/search bar suggestions.

I didn't know about that, thanks

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by kibwen » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

Eight years and 800,000 bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000

Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by navid_dichols » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

Firebox's firebug addon makes it worth the price of admission. Thanks for a great 8 years FF!

Side note: if you could add support for base64 pngs embedded with the data uri you could really help me out of a jam...

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:35 PM UTC

I remember making the jump from Netscape 4.72 to Mozilla 1.2, modulo a little dalliance with IE when it was still ahead of the curve. I've been on Mozilla/Firefox ever since, and never made the jump to Chrome as my main browser (though I have it installed). Firefox just keeps getting better and better, and I'm delighted at how the friendly competition between Firefox and Chrome is driving faster improvement to both, rather than the divisive extend/embrace/extinguish competition between Netscape and IE.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by AndresOspina » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:39 PM UTC

In my humble opinion I think that while Firefox has asked some ground in market share, does a great job with the web and compete against the negligent microsoft products had 8 years to give us a better browsing experience we know today has much to do calving with Firefox.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by olliesaunders » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 2:11 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #16

Eight years and 800,000 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000 Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.

I can't tell if this is sarcastic. But before I read this post I was going to say how much I love Firefox but regret how they fail to address bugs before implementing new features. 800,000 bugs is nothing to be proud of.