I use Windows. A lot. While I would never use IE on a Mac, I'm just now coming over to the Mozilla camp on Windows.
And the reason is simple. I'm pragmatic, more than anything else ('cept being lazy). If it works well, I'll use it. And for a long time, IE worked well. Sure it pissed off a few code whores with it's unusual interpretation of various languages. But most everything worked with it.
But now...it's slow. It pisses me off more than it works. So I updated Mozilla to 1.3.1 a few days/weeks ago. And I'm using that exclusively now. It rocks. It's faster. A lot faster. And it loads just about every page I use 2-3 times faster than IE. Java is far more stable. Style Sheets work (big deal, since half my surfing is on blogs). Even the MS KnowledgeBase works better.
Fuck IE. Make sweet love to Mozilla.
Posted by danisaacs at June 18, 2003 10:23 AM | TrackBackWell, the last time I looked at Mozilla on the Mac, it was a big steaming pile of not-so-goodness. Safari, on the other hand, is a blast to use. I should probably look at Mozilla Firebird on Windows, but I too am terribly lazy (plus changing browsers seems to be one of those things you do when you're stuck in bed with a broken hip or something, with nothing better to do.)
Posted by: paul robichaux on June 18, 2003 11:25 AMI agree. I didn't care much for Moz on X. Chimera was pleasent enough, but Safari is the way to go. But on Windows, Moz 1.3.1 is subjectively better than IE. I'll give Firebird a try.
Posted by: Animatronically Dan Isaacs on June 18, 2003 11:59 AMYou think Mozilla is cool? Try firebird. It's all I use now.
Well, except on the Mac. I use Camino there. Same thing, mostly.
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny on June 19, 2003 02:03 AM