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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2006, 10:37:22 pm »
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In December 2005, the Microsoft IE team and Outlook team announced in their blogs that they will be adopting the feed icon first used in the Mozilla Firefox browser , effectively making the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for both RSS and related formats such as Atom. Also in February 2006, Opera Software announced they too will add the orange square in their next release of Opera 9.

That idea is perfectly reasonable I understand.Copying a logo to make it universal.

But when IE7 implemented tabbed browsing it works EXACTLY like firefox's does. Right down to the keyboard shortcuts.

Are you going to tell me that Ctrl+T doesn't make sense for new tab? In fact, Safari just plain pissed me off with whatever they used (Alt+T or whatever). It's too hard to remember. Besides, I don't see you saying that Firefox copied MS Word with the shortcut for Ctrl+S being to save something.

Note: I'm not trying to show support to IE7 - I just want the arguments against it to be good! :)
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2006, 10:41:40 pm »
I guess keyboard shortcuts were a bad example. But as a whole when I first saw IE7 it appeared to me to be just a slightly lacking version of Firefox. That is to say, firefox without all the extensions that I have and such. I'm personally going to stick with firefox.
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2006, 11:54:50 pm »
I guess keyboard shortcuts were a bad example. But as a whole when I first saw IE7 it appeared to me to be just a slightly lacking version of Firefox. That is to say, firefox without all the extensions that I have and such. I'm personally going to stick with firefox.

No one is trying to convince you to use IE7 or even that IE7 is a good browser.  That is pretty much irrelevant to the argument...

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2006, 01:00:16 pm »
Here is a quote from a reliable source. "IE7 is bullshit."
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #34 on: November 16, 2006, 01:03:41 pm »
Here is a quote from a reliable source. "IE7 is bullshit."

Again, the quality of the product is completely irrelevant to the argument.  If you want to bash on it, at least provide some more viable reasoning.

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2006, 02:38:00 pm »
It is a now just a lame copy of Firefox. It just tired to copy firefox. However, it is a insufficient copy. It is lacking and Firefox is by far better. It has more options and the ability to add plug ins to make it more customizable to your pleasure. As well as themes.
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2006, 02:39:25 pm »
 ::)

For the record, I'm a Firefox user.

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2006, 02:58:57 pm »
It is a now just a lame copy of Firefox. It just tired to copy firefox. However, it is a insufficient copy. It is lacking and Firefox is by far better. It has more options and the ability to add plug ins to make it more customizable to your pleasure. As well as themes.

Okay, maybe if I put it in bold letters you'll get it:

No one is arguing that IE7 is a better internet browser than FireFox.

The fact is, though, the majority of the people who use the internet use Internet Explorer.  If Microsoft improves the product, they should be commended, not bad mouthed because they could have done better.

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2006, 03:51:44 pm »
Maybe if you use pi to graph it....

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2006, 03:55:35 pm »
LOL

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2006, 05:23:01 pm »
The reason why internet explorer is the most used program is only because it comes with windows. Though for some reason, some people have internet explorer on a Mac. Go figure.
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2006, 05:43:43 pm »
The reason why internet explorer is the most used program is only because it comes with windows. Though for some reason, some people have internet explorer on a Mac. Go figure.

Thank you for endowing us with your wisdom.  </sarcasm>

Everyone knows that.  I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, but at the moment, it's not much of anything, it seems.

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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2006, 06:28:24 pm »
It is a now just a lame copy of Firefox. It just tired to copy firefox. However, it is a insufficient copy. It is lacking and Firefox is by far better. It has more options and the ability to add plug ins to make it more customizable to your pleasure. As well as themes.
Plugins you say?  Weird, I have plugins for IE... Acrobat, Flash, the IE Developer Toolbar...
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2006, 06:47:11 pm »
Plugins were refering to user customized stuff like, fireftp, fasterfox, google previer, forecastfox, tab catalog, gmail manager, IE Tab, All-in-One Sidebar, and others. And also, custom themes to appeal to the user such as noia or walnut.
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Re: Microsoft Firefox Professional??
« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2006, 07:03:18 pm »
Plugins were refering to user customized stuff like, fireftp, fasterfox, google previer, forecastfox, tab catalog, gmail manager, IE Tab, All-in-One Sidebar, and others. And also, custom themes to appeal to the user such as noia or walnut.

Look into IE7 Addons, Microsoft even has an official community site.
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