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The browser war stalled before it gets going
posted Mon 30 Oct 06
FireFox launched their latest version 2.0 last week with much fanfare. Microsoft did the same with their 7.0 release. There was a bit of a scuffle to see which browser had the first security report lodged against them, and it looks like Microsoft is the first one. There was an aborted report on FireFox earlier, but it hasn't be acknowledged yet.
However, don't be fooled into thinking FireFox is winning. Slashdot has an interesting thread titled, 9 reasons not to upgrade to FireFox 2.0 , citing many of the same reasons that has bogged down the previous version of FireFox, namely memory. Too much effort has gone into new bells'n'whistles and not enough on the real bugbears that cripple this potentially great piece of software.
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