Firefox Myth debunking?

[Terr]

I wonder if links inherited engine code from from lynx... :P

[westin]

I downloaded it... I ended up disabling JS altogether, and I will just enable sites that I trust... I am kind of liking opera... FF is more familiar, but I like some of the features...

[JPnyc]

Depends on the user, as was said above. Me, I have neither the time nor the desire to go hunting down a dozen extensions, nor to upgrade them when the browser does, but I love features, tons of em. I have to have em.

[Egaladeist]

Well...to add to what JPnyc said earlier...Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape are all the children of AOL...I'm not sure exactly how much stock AOL still has in them or how involved they are now...but they were all financed and supported by AOL in their beginnings at least...which is why they all run off the same engine.

[JPnyc]

OY! I didn't know that. Now I'm really glad I don't use a browser!

[Egaladeist]

Mozilla to this day still offers the AOL toolbar for their browsers:

AOL Toolbar
by AOL LLC

About AOL® Toolbar for Firefox®
http://downloads.channel.aol.com/firefox_toolbar

Access the best of AOL.com directly from your Firefox browser. You can search the Web, communicate with friends and family, organize information and set-up quick access to your favorite AOL.com features and services with the AOL Toolbar for Firefox. It's free, easy and takes only a minute to install.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2114/
AOL Toolbar | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

[Godsrock37]

jpnyc,
what do you use in replace of a browser? wget, or a self written script? or is it a joke?

[JPnyc]

I just lay my hands on the modem and commune with the web. Yes, of course it was a joke. I use maxthon, an IE shell.

[nihil]

Hmmm,

In the beginning, AOL was one of the people who helped fund the Mozilla development.

In 1999, AOL bought Netscape so own it 100%.

FireFox postdates AOL's financing of Mozilla, as does SeaMonkey. AOL does not own any "stock" in any of them, and has not been involved for some time AFAIK.

Netscape took out a $750M antitrust suit against Microsoft, and AOL got the rights to use IE for free as part of the settlement.

They play these sort of games, just like MS supporting SCO

[brokencrow]

Any browser's safer w/o scripting. I always thought FF's strength was there was no ActiveX by default, which is great for dummies.

Been using Opera since 3.62. Probably the best $35 I ever spent on software. FF sees most of my browsing now though; force of habit.

Funny, I'm back to using IE regularly since picking up this support gig in an MS shop. Feels really wierd to use IE after all this time. Kinda like I'm walking around all the time with my fly open