Well, duh. That’s how they get their money to pay for the high bandwidth they need. Aside from donations of course. Open source doesn’t mean 100% free. You still need to pay for the necessities to run their website and development tracker.
I for one, don’t care if this is a marketing ploy by the Mozilla Foundation, which is supposed to be a not-for-profit organization. The more important thing is they do their best to promote and back an open source software. What I like about these kinds of applications is its fast community-based development, which is essential to eliminate app vulnerabilities and bugs as soon as possible.
Oh and a disclaimer: I am a Safari (Mac OS) user but I still use Firefox for cross-browser web design. I am impressed with the Firefox 3 release candidate. Perhaps I’d make a switch when they release it this week.
Well, what’s the sense? Firefox got themselves in the Guinness World Record. My Laptop having some major errors since I installed the Firefox3. Firefox3 started to prevent me from browsing some websites (websites that is not secured according to their half-cooked brand new security measures). Oh What the hell! I shouldn’t have installed the firefox3 and stayed on firefox2. Besides, even if I didn’t installed the firefox3 in the first place, the firefox2 will keep on prompting messages telling me to upgrade to their crappy ver.3 browser. *sigh* CRAP.
Please tell us those issues with your laptop. Also, that’s why there’s a crash reporter for Firefox. You could also send this issue to their trac and they could include the fix on the next release. Just make sure this is an authentic bug.
Firefox 3 is not compatible on some websites, that’s a known fact for all browsers since each will interpret javascript/css differently. Again, please list these websites you’re talking about. You could’ve upgraded at a later date if these incompatibility issues bothers you, this would always be a problem on any software release.
This is just a marketing ploy by Mozilla!
katexter,
Well, duh. That’s how they get their money to pay for the high bandwidth they need. Aside from donations of course. Open source doesn’t mean 100% free. You still need to pay for the necessities to run their website and development tracker.
I for one, don’t care if this is a marketing ploy by the Mozilla Foundation, which is supposed to be a not-for-profit organization. The more important thing is they do their best to promote and back an open source software. What I like about these kinds of applications is its fast community-based development, which is essential to eliminate app vulnerabilities and bugs as soon as possible.
Oh and a disclaimer: I am a Safari (Mac OS) user but I still use Firefox for cross-browser web design. I am impressed with the Firefox 3 release candidate. Perhaps I’d make a switch when they release it this week.
Well, what’s the sense? Firefox got themselves in the Guinness World Record. My Laptop having some major errors since I installed the Firefox3. Firefox3 started to prevent me from browsing some websites (websites that is not secured according to their half-cooked brand new security measures). Oh What the hell! I shouldn’t have installed the firefox3 and stayed on firefox2. Besides, even if I didn’t installed the firefox3 in the first place, the firefox2 will keep on prompting messages telling me to upgrade to their crappy ver.3 browser. *sigh* CRAP.
Jesse
Please tell us those issues with your laptop. Also, that’s why there’s a crash reporter for Firefox. You could also send this issue to their trac and they could include the fix on the next release. Just make sure this is an authentic bug.
Firefox 3 is not compatible on some websites, that’s a known fact for all browsers since each will interpret javascript/css differently. Again, please list these websites you’re talking about. You could’ve upgraded at a later date if these incompatibility issues bothers you, this would always be a problem on any software release.