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Interview with Ben Goodger @ Neowin
[link=http://www.neowin.net]Neowin[/link] has posted an interview with chief Mozilla Firebird developer, Ben Goodger.
[blockquote]Q. Can you give us some reasons why Internet Explorer users would want to change over to Firebird?
A. For many of the features I've described. Even with add-ons to IE that give you pop up blocking and Google search bars, you still don't get Tabbed Browsing, Find as You Type (just start typing text and the browser will jump to the first matching link on the page), streamlined file downloading, and more. Our UI is deceptively simple but highly configurable, more so than the Mozilla 1.x product, and we try to make sure commands are where IE users would naturally expect them to be, to ease the transition.
Q. Some users are deterred from Firebird because they are afraid that pages might not display "correctly", or as they might in Internet Explorer. What are your thoughts on this?
A. This of course depends on what pages you visit. There are a number of sites on the web that are designed for proprietary Microsoft technologies, a good example is MSDN. It is a rare occurrence however that I need to start IE to view a site, I think we do a better job than any other non-IE browser at displaying web pages properly.
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[link=http://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=76]The full interview[/link]
[blockquote]Q. Can you give us some reasons why Internet Explorer users would want to change over to Firebird?
A. For many of the features I've described. Even with add-ons to IE that give you pop up blocking and Google search bars, you still don't get Tabbed Browsing, Find as You Type (just start typing text and the browser will jump to the first matching link on the page), streamlined file downloading, and more. Our UI is deceptively simple but highly configurable, more so than the Mozilla 1.x product, and we try to make sure commands are where IE users would naturally expect them to be, to ease the transition.
Q. Some users are deterred from Firebird because they are afraid that pages might not display "correctly", or as they might in Internet Explorer. What are your thoughts on this?
A. This of course depends on what pages you visit. There are a number of sites on the web that are designed for proprietary Microsoft technologies, a good example is MSDN. It is a rare occurrence however that I need to start IE to view a site, I think we do a better job than any other non-IE browser at displaying web pages properly.
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[link=http://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=76]The full interview[/link]
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