Problems for FireFox?

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No, it's not a vulnerability for FireFox, it has to do with the lack of active FireFox developers. There is a group of six working on the project, but 4 of them are AWOL (absence without leave). So only 2 remain, and only one of them makes code reviews. You can say that the FireFox program is heavily undermanned. Mike Conner, one of the developers of FireFox have focused on this problem.

It's a bad period for FireFox to deal with this program, the program is still gaining popularity, but when no one is on the developing site, the program can lose popularity when patches or updates are needed.

The dates on the roadmap for FireFox 2.0 could be delayed. Conner is not optimistic for the future, however a solution could be to take some developers from the Mozilla Foundation, we hope that they will find a solution soon.

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Wow!

March 9, 2005 by Chris Charlton

I realllllly hope they clear it up soon. Maybe those AWOL guys are now hired at Microsoft, ouch... was a joke, bad one too. :P

That is good news

March 11, 2005 by bollax bollax

I was so happy when I read that Firefox might not be around for much longer as no-one was developing it. It's crap, it should never have been released in the first place. You need decent internet browsers on the market not the useless pile of shite Firefox is. Firefox is dead , long live I.E.

RE: That is good news

March 11, 2005 by Jeff Whitfield

Exactly how is it that Firefox is crap? Instead of merely saying it's crap and leave it at that...why not try and leave examples as to how it is so. You say "long live IE"...umm...why? IE is riddled with problems, chief...namely in it's use of ActiveX controls. It's what makes IE so susceptible to spyware hacks...and even then, with XP SP2, spyware can still get on your computer with IE. For speed, stability, and security, alot of people (including myself) standby our claims of Firefox being the better browser...but of course that is purely in the eye of the beholder. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. :)

You really need it spelt out ?

March 11, 2005 by bollax bollax

It's, slow, non-fault tolerent, won't use my realplayer, images and fonts are all wrong, it's css handling is analy retentive, it even expects you yo use cursor:pointer not cursor:hand , well sorry my mouse starts as a pointer and turns to a hand - say no more, explain no more - FireFox is CRAP!

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