Blogging Ottinger (tim)Firefox is Number 1!!!
I just heard today that firefox is number one!! I hope it’s true! It’s time for the people to own their browser, instead of being held for ransom by any one vendor (esp one with disdain for internet standards). There are many criticisms of Micro$oft’s browser online, mainly focusing on lack of standards support.
Whether firefox is faster and more secure or not (I think it is), whether you love IE or want to stop its spread, it’s good to have a browser that supports the standards rather more fully and which works with tabs. It’s better to have browsing owned by an open source project (a kind of public trust) rather than a corporation (criticisms of their past behavior aside). Just for fun sometime, google for “internet explorer standards” and see what you learn about IE. Web designers hate it.
Firefox and Apache together mean that the web is now owned by its users, and it helps to ensure that nobody can erect a toll booth on the superhighway.
Beyond all of that however, is that it’s a very nice browser. And today, it looks like a hundred million.
