{"id":346,"date":"2006-06-30T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/firefox-needs-to-raise-its-game-before.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T13:32:59","slug":"firefox-needs-to-raise-its-game-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/firefox-needs-to-raise-its-game-before.htm","title":{"rendered":"Firefox needs to raise its game before IE 7 goes mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--115168861626019682-->At the risk of offending almost 27% of the people who visited my website this month, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=22709&amp;t=64\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a> has lost its way. The last couple of times it has updated itself on my Windows XP SP2 machine, it&#8217;s crashed (taking with it all of the tabs that I have open &#8211; possibly representing a couple of days worth of work in progress or things to look at further when I get a few minutes).<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the fact that too many developers are still producing badly-written websites that are not standards-compliant (not the fault of the Mozilla developers, but still hindering me as a Firefox user) and we have a very unhappy user who keeps on having to go back to using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/\">Microsoft Internet Explorer<\/a> (IE). It&#8217;s not just people like me who write bad sites either &#8211; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemorse.com\/\">SiteMorse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemorse.com\/news.html?id=1264496328\">the worst site belongs to Tesco<\/a> (the biggest retailer in the UK, which now accounts for more than \u00c2\u00a31 in every \u00c2\u00a38 spent on the high street). If I have to use two browsers I might as well stick with the one that works with every site I go to, and unfortunately, that&#8217;s the one produced by everyone&#8217;s favourite monopolistic software company.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get better when you look at vulnerabilities either. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jamesone\/archive\/2006\/06\/26\/438758.aspx\">James O&#8217;Neill<\/a> (who, admittedly, works for Microsoft), highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit9.com\/docs\/VulnerableApps.pdf\">a report by Bit9 that lists the top applications with critical vulnerabilities<\/a>. Surprisingly for me (and for many others, I presume) IE is nowhere to be seen and Firefox (v1.0.7) tops the list (although v1.5.0.4 is the latest release as I write this).<\/p>\n<p>Open source had its chance to take back the web. If the Firefox reliability doesn&#8217;t get better, then we&#8217;ll just see Internet Explorer 7 take it back (IE 7 seems very good, although despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/press\/releases\/20050705\/\/\">Microsoft pledging a commitment to web standards<\/a> it still seems to be lacking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/wonderful-thing-about-web-standards.htm\">standards compliance<\/a> department &#8211; the version in Windows Vista beta 2 fails the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/files\/acid2\/test.html\">ACID 2 test<\/a>, but so does Firefox v1.5.0.4 on Windows XP SP2).<\/p>\n<p>Even if Windows Vista encounters further delays, IE 7+ (and IE 7 for Windows XP users) will hit the streets soon (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2006\/06\/29\/649910.aspx\">beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 was released yesterday<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla needs to raise its game and further increase its share of the market before Microsoft wins the latest battle in the browser wars (ownership of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ie7.com\/\">ie7.com<\/a> domain name is not going to be enough).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of offending almost 27% of the people who visited my website this month, I think Mozilla Firefox has lost its way. The last couple of times it has updated itself on my Windows XP SP2 machine, it&#8217;s crashed (taking with it all of the tabs that I have open &#8211; possibly representing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/firefox-needs-to-raise-its-game-before.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox needs to raise its game before IE 7 goes mainstream<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-web-browsers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Firefox needs to raise its game before IE 7 goes mainstream - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/firefox-needs-to-raise-its-game-before.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Firefox needs to raise its game before IE 7 goes mainstream - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the risk of offending almost 27% of the people who visited my website this month, I think Mozilla Firefox has lost its way. 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