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Why is anyone still using this browser anyway? Firefox is the new IE6.

smcl 11y ago
"...the new IE" has been thrown about so much it is basically an empty statement I'm afraid https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22chrome+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22chrome+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22firefox+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22firefox+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22safari+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22safari+is+the+new+IE%22
- drvortex 11y ago
  If you had taken a moment to actually scan those search results, you would have realized that "Chrome is the new IE" is typically a reference to its ubiquity. Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times. Which is why I said "IE6" in my original comment. The later versions of IE were very decent. They certainly didn't seem like the frozen accident of history - an issue Firefox continues to grapple with.
  - nnethercote 11y ago
    > Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times. That's a reasonable criticism of Safari, which is updated infrequently and is lagging on all sorts of web standards, but not for Firefox.
jacquesm 11y ago
Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player, and because each and every browser ever launched had security issues. Even lynx is not immune: http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5836/product_id-9869/Lynx-Lynx.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5836/...
- niklasni1 11y ago
  Even with all Mozilla's been doing lately (Hello, Pocket), I still trust them more than Google. That probably says more about the latter, though.
- nilved 11y ago
  > Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player Not close to true. There are hundreds of browsers out there. I used Surf[0] and Xombrero[1] for a number of years. [0] http://surf.suckless.org http://surf.suckless.org [1] https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
  - meapix 11y ago
    thank you! first time I hear about xombrero
wtbob 11y ago
> Firefox is the new IE6. That really is nonsense. Firefox is standards-compliant; it's multi-platform; and it works. I have major issues with its direction (the gelding of its sync service was particularly galling), but it's still the best browser out there.
zobzu 11y ago
Dat hate
- drvortex 11y ago
  Umm, no. See Firefox gives no one any reason to hate it based on idealogy. It's a pro-consumer, pro-internet user, privacy-respecting, standards-compliant browser. What is not to love in this ideology? All the same, as of 2015, it is a poor implementation of a browser from the technical point of view. Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up.
  - EpicDavi 11y ago
    > Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up. How has it not kept up?
  - orting 11y ago
    I am curious. Could you highlight some of the technical problems with Firefox?
    - zobzu 11y ago
      Ha, the hn fud. Not like if theres going any real answer to this

smcl 11y ago

"...the new IE" has been thrown about so much it is basically an empty statement I'm afraid https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22chrome+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22chrome+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22firefox+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22firefox+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22safari+is+the+new+IE%22 https://www.google.com/webhp?q=%22safari+is+the+new+IE%22

drvortex 11y ago
If you had taken a moment to actually scan those search results, you would have realized that "Chrome is the new IE" is typically a reference to its ubiquity. Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times. Which is why I said "IE6" in my original comment. The later versions of IE were very decent. They certainly didn't seem like the frozen accident of history - an issue Firefox continues to grapple with.
- nnethercote 11y ago
  > Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times. That's a reasonable criticism of Safari, which is updated infrequently and is lagging on all sorts of web standards, but not for Firefox.

jacquesm 11y ago

Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player, and because each and every browser ever launched had security issues. Even lynx is not immune: http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5836/product_id-9869/Lynx-Lynx.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5836/...

niklasni1 11y ago
Even with all Mozilla's been doing lately (Hello, Pocket), I still trust them more than Google. That probably says more about the latter, though.
nilved 11y ago
> Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player Not close to true. There are hundreds of browsers out there. I used Surf[0] and Xombrero[1] for a number of years. [0] http://surf.suckless.org http://surf.suckless.org [1] https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
- meapix 11y ago
  thank you! first time I hear about xombrero

wtbob 11y ago

> Firefox is the new IE6. That really is nonsense. Firefox is standards-compliant; it's multi-platform; and it works. I have major issues with its direction (the gelding of its sync service was particularly galling), but it's still the best browser out there.

zobzu 11y ago

Dat hate

drvortex 11y ago
Umm, no. See Firefox gives no one any reason to hate it based on idealogy. It's a pro-consumer, pro-internet user, privacy-respecting, standards-compliant browser. What is not to love in this ideology? All the same, as of 2015, it is a poor implementation of a browser from the technical point of view. Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up.
- EpicDavi 11y ago
  > Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up. How has it not kept up?
- orting 11y ago
  I am curious. Could you highlight some of the technical problems with Firefox?
  - zobzu 11y ago
    Ha, the hn fud. Not like if theres going any real answer to this