[olug] Firefox 3 launch party

[Kevin]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Christopher Cashell wrote:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>> > I wonder if there will ever be a Firefox 4. KHTML has been more compliant
>> > and lighter for quite some time now (IIRC, around 3.2, over a year ago),
>> > and with Qt 4.4 including an integrated WebKit and powerful demo browser,
>> > I expect Firefox is going to be losing marketshare to it pretty soon...
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Say what you will about KHTML (and note that KHTML is directly
>> comparable to Gecko, the Mozilla project's rendering engine, it's not
>> a browser by itself) being more compliant, but I've had a lot more
>> problems with sites not displaying properly in Konqueror than in
>> Firefox.
>
> I would venture to guess that these particular sites are not compliant or
> correctly designed.
>
>> Couple that with the number of great extensions and the generally better
>> (IMO) interface of Firefox, and Konqueror, though installed, gets negligible
>> usage by me.  In fact, a few of the extensions are so useful to me that I'd
>> be more than willing to give up speed for the features.  Luckily, with
>> Firefox3, I get the best of both worlds (and I'd love to see some new
>> performance comparisons, 'cause Firefox3 seems to perform really well to
>> me).
>
> Yeah, extensions seem to be a big thing for Firefox users, though I really
> don't see a need tbh. My last reply addressed that more, so I won't go into
> it again.
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