Firefox 2 Launch - Interview With Chris Beard

ReadWriteWeb writes "This afternoon Firefox 2 will be 'officially' launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, ReadWriteWeb has a brief interview with Chris Beard — Mozilla Vice President of Products. Subjects discussed include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla's theory behind Web feeds and why they haven't included an integrated RSS Reader, the growing add-on ecosystem, offline browsing, and finally a little about the future of the browser." From the article: "It felt to us like a 2.0 product, particularly if we looked at it from what 1.0 was, to 2.0. It was like half steps, from 1.0 to 1.5 to 2.0. It's also a very stable and rock solid release - it's really ready for the masses. So it really does feel like a 2, as opposed to a 1.x product. Firefox 2 has, we estimate, between 3-4 times the number of fixes than FF 1.5 did. And that doesn't just include fixes and bugs, but all of the feature work as well as memory, stability and security issues. But there's certainly a lot in it which makes it really solid." Also on the site is a concise review of the product, and an overview of Marketing Firefox 2.0.

Half Steps?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that like half of a hole? Or is that what you call it when someone lifts their foot off the ground and then doesn't set it back down?

Looks good.

[AusIV]

I look forward to the actual release. Of the American English version. For more than one platform. (This is not directed at the firefox team).

Mozilla is nothing but a front for Google

[Anonymous Coward]

And google are Ursurpers of Freedom.
Information wants to be free, don't use firefox. use a TRUE free GPL webbrowser like Elinks instead and

LEt freedom Ring!!!!

Re:Half Steps?

[morgan_greywolf]

Is that like half of a hole? Or is that what you call it when someone lifts their foot off the ground and then doesn't set it back down?

Bb-B-C-C#-D

Re:Get a clue already.

[bigtimepie]

How can you tell a /. user at first glance? Their posts use the word penetrate as often as possible.

Re:After running both....

[w0lver]

As for usability or personal preference, I have no argument with you. My biggest frustration comes from more of a development slant. There still will be a people using IE and now IE 7 and pages that rely heavily on CSS will have to have a different stylesheet because of the horrible implementation of CSS. Load this page using IE, http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html# top [webstandards.org], and see what happens. Load the same page in Firefox, close but no cigar, I have to go to Safari to actually see the page rendered as designed. The point is Firefox is much closer to passing the Acid2 test making web developers lives much easier than the mish mosh of support in IE.

Re:Why is the setup file larger than that of Opera

[Anonymous Coward]

Yet you're still a douchebag. Yay, you use Opera - go fuck yourself.

Re:Why is the setup file larger than that of Opera

[EatHam]

Because it has approximately 1Mb more than Opera included in the install file.

Re:I actually missed it

[operagost]

Which hotkey do you hit to pull up your pants?

Re:Why is the setup file larger than that of Opera

[samkass]

1MB?! Yikes! That's going to take an extra 3 seconds to download!

Re:To be so concerned about this

[cliath]

Among other things.