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I think this guy is right, because unlike the IE -> Firefox switch that is slow, Firefox -> Chrome switch can be really fast. And this is just the start. From t

by antirez 18y ago

I think this guy is right, because unlike the IE -> Firefox switch that is slow, Firefox -> Chrome switch can be really fast. And this is just the start. From the user point of view Firefox is almost unchanged since 1.0, I wonder what they really did in all this time: stability, new parts of the standard implemented, better page rendering, and so on, but this is not a DNS server or an SMTP server, it's a browser. You need to go forward in a way that the user can touch, and improve the user life. Just what Chrome is doing.

halo 18y ago
Firefox has changed lots since 1.0, you probably just don't realise it because it's taken a while. Off the top of my head: * Major look and feel changes in 3.0 * Spell checking in 3.0 * Performance improvements throughout the browser. * Improved support for adding/removing plugins * Allow searching of addons from within Firefox * Improved Mac OS X integration. * The Awesomebar. * Completely revamped everything to do with bookmarks. * Improved options window * Revamped Downloads window, with download progress in the bottom right. Coming soon in 3.5: Private browsing, dragging tabs into new windows. For a lightweight browser, this adds up.