Primordial Ooze

I just caught up with another post, this one from Don Box who says, “ VS 2005 as a better Firefox”. Oh, Don, you’ve got to be kidding man.

The Firefox Experience is so much more than tabbed browsing. It’s about:

• personalization with Themes
• A rich set of extensions such as synchronized bookmarks (who uses one computer?), dynamic stylesheet editor, customized tabbing, fine control on how new links are spawned, etc. Lots of people push this far further than I do, ala Grease Monkey and other advanced extensions.
• Speed!
• Frequent updates

People who use IE are absolute dinosaurs. Sure, IE7 will probably kick some serious ass but why wait for it? And finally, why use an IDE to do your browsing? That’s insane!

An IE user could probably argue all of those points:

• I like the default IE look so why alter it?
• I only use one machine so why do I need to synchronize my bookmarks?
• IE is fast enough on my 2GB Dual Xeon 3Ghz processor with a 15,000 RPM Ultra Wide SCSI hard drive.
• IE doesn’t have any problems so why update it.

Maybe your mileage differs, but all of my neighbor’s machines are completely fucked with Spyware due to crappy IE code. I can’t count  the times I’ve asked for the reinstallation CD’s of these machines!