Firefox 2K and Shipping
June 17th, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, Technology
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Today is Firefox 3 day!
Here is one thing that Firefox does that IE7 and IE8 still cannot do at all:
Firefox 3 came out today, as people have been saying in their blogs. Firefox is still the cross-platform solution for those of us who work on the web, running on OS X, Linux, and Windows, going back to Windows 2000 for the latter. For the next generation web browsers, only Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 run on Windows 2000. This is too bad as you still see Win 2K in a large number of professional institutions, like banks and factory floors, where it is seen as a tried and true operating system.
I’m really glad that Firefox 3 is out the door. It has been a good run but I think we have all been ready to ship this.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Congratulations from a long time user (we’re talking, *Mozilla* 0.9 era, and NN before that), and thank you for a wonderful browser.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Running Firefox 3 on Win2k is great! To me one of the selling points of Firefox is that it runs on older OSes, reducing the need for upgrading older machines and thereby saving money!
Of course if you think that is something, I have had Firefox 2.0.0.x running under NT 3.51 – for which there was NEVER a native 32-bit version of IE available. Screen shot: http://toastytech.com/guis/ff2nt351.png