firebird gets blogged

Alex Bishop, over at mozillaZine gathered up all of the press on the Firefox 0.8 release. If you haven't seen enough Firefox news, go give Alex's post a look.

Alex's got the tech press covered, so I took a few minutes to gather up some Firefox feedback from blogland and here's what I came up with. It's by no means a complete list, so if you reviewed 0.8 and I neglected you, drop me an e-mail or post here and I'll add you to the list.

William Grosso, at O'Reilly Network Developer Weblogs says, "I decided to check it out, and wow it feels good."

Claudine Chionh at Claudine's Weblog says "I heart Firefox."

Rich Bowen, at DrBacchus' Journal comments, "I don't get terribly excited about new browsers very often. If it loads most pages, that's probably enough for me. But the new version of Firefox is just amazing."

Charlie Rich, Jr at Daily stuff proclaims, "It's probably THE most compliant browser I've seen as far as web standards go, and everything looks nice in it."

Henri Yandell, at bayard said, "Wow. Firefox is impressive. Very impressive. Unless some nasty issue crops up, today marks the end of my IE usage except for grabbing binaries of firefox to install."

Scott Mcdowell, at Slowchildren.com says, "So here’s my message to all Internet Explorer users, “It’s time to switch.” Mozilla Firefox (which used to be called Firebird) is a much better way to view the web than IE."

Michael Pereckas, at BeigeJournal posts, "If 0.8 is this good, just imagine 1.0. I highly recommend it."

Robert Stewart, at WombatNation says, "I can't say it enough times. Dump IE and use Firefox."

Don Park, at Don Park's Daily Habit said, "I predict that Firefox browser marketshare will be near 20% by end of year 2004. It's that good and getting better."

Matt Burris, at Good Blimey declares, "If you're not using it, and you're using Internet Explorer or AOL's browser, by all means get Firefox. Don't you know that IE/AOL is bad for you?"

Kristal, at echo says, "I upgraded from Mozilla Firebird to Mozilla Firefox over the past few days and I’m really enjoying it so far."

George Edward Purdy, over at No Name, No Slogan blasts, "Custom searches in Firefox. This is better than you know."

Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture says, "In addition to faster rendering times than IE (on my machine anyway) it features tabbed browsing, popup blocking, built-in Googling and other niceties."

Barry Irwin, at Static in the Ether said, "Firefox 0.8 particularly impresses me, its fast faster than IE, and so much nicer to use."

Jim Trosper, at Blather://03 posts, "The Gecko engine combined with a very luscious interface. What more could a person want? Oh, and several nifty built-in features."

Jim Bray, at Jim Bray: The Blog says, "Fastest browser I've ever used."

Matthew Mastracci, at grack.com said, "I'm impressed with the number of people that have started using this browser - people who I would have never expected to switch have done so. You never hear the words 'this site doesn't work in Firefox' .... Overall, I'm very impressed with the polish of this 0.8 release. It's solid, fast and so far beyond IE in terms of standards compliance."

Ken Liu, at The Tech Blog of Ken posts, "Mozilla Firefox (.8) is mind-bogglingly fast, even on my PIII 600 MHz laptop. Fast as in 'did this thing read my mind and preparse the next page?'"

Donn, at eDonn.com says, "I opened up my web browser today, and realised how I loved its new look of my web browser (I'm using Mozilla Firefox on an Apple eMac)."

Requiem, at Requiem Overflow says, "firefox rulz and if you aren't using it im sorry for you."

Philip Dhingra, at Philosophistry says, "Thanks to Firefox, Mozilla's newest beta browser, you can combine the utility of RSS feeds with the aesthetics of the web."

Dwight Wallbridge, at Geek Blog said, "For playing BlogShares the tabbed browsing is a major blessing, and the same goes for posting. I have to say I give this new version an A, but only because there are a few little annoyances that need fixing."

MVP, at retroactively testifies, "I'm hooked. [Edit] Usually I don't do endorsements, but this browser really is better than Internet Explorer. And it's Freeware."

Mark Stevens, at Momentum said, "There’s a new Firefox in town and it’s the hippest, happening web browser this side of… well, anything this side of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, to be brutally honest."

Ceri Jones, at away with words says, "A fast upcoming alternative, however, is Mozilla Firefox, a fast, feature-packed browser based on the open source Mozilla code. Check it out now."

Arvind Satyanarayan, at C:\Arvind.blog declares, "I have finally joined the rest of the world and adopted Mozilla Firefox as my default browser."

Ed de Quincey, at blogaholic says, "Whenever I've spoken to someone about it the first thing they say is that "it just feels better" and that's the best way of describing it - go and get it!"

Mike Wendland, at tech:knowledge said, "I find it every bit as fast, efficient and robust as Safari and have encountered no Web pages that it can't handle, unlike Safari since Apple sent the 1.2 update through."

Somabish, at Somabish days remarks, "i'm trying out the mozilla firefox browser, and it's so much fun! :D "

Dongdong Zhang, at Dong's Blog says, "Today I downloaded and installed Mozilla Firefox, I am impressed. It looks better than IE, the tabbed window is great, and I can access my IE favoriates directly, and It display Chinese website just fine. I am sure I will find more pleasent features as I using it."

T1Pimp, at Huggybeer posts, "I personally thought Mozilla had some strong qualities but never could get myself to use it. It was slow, big, my site rendered better under IE, etc. I've grabbed Firefox and have to say... so far I'm impressed."

Jason Burfield, at Bitching, Moaning and Other Fun Stuff says, "FireFox...good stuff. Looks much better than Mozilla, at least on my machines. Seems to render fonts much, much better. It is also very, very fast. Go get it right now."

Chris Hileman, at TechnoBlog said, "This week Mozilla Firefox came out, and of couse like past versions of Phoenix/Firebird it totally kicks ass."

Katrina Silvermoon, at katrinacat proclaims, "Firefox is better than Internet Explorer. Don't argue, you know it's true."

Jeremy, at Happy Panic Productions says, "Have you been itching to throw the MS Internet Exploder yoke off ever since Netscape turned into a huge steaming pile of software poo? Then try Firefox today"

Will Pate, at Will Pate.org posts, "Since Monday I've been convincing people left and right to use Firefox. I've got Sandy Peardon to download it, my Dad (a longtime IE stalwart) is giving it a shot, Nat Babineau's loving it and my friend Julien also enjoys it. I also spoke to a dozen business owners in Summerside this week, I can only hope they give it a try. Anyone want to start up a competition like Gimli and Legolas in Lord of the Rings?"

Chris Gonyea, at Chris' Corner posts, "I must say, the direction Firefox is taking is exactly how my vision of what a web browser looks, does, and feels like is. The Firefox team and everyone at the Mozilla Foundation have been doing an incredible job."

Will Turner, at In Perspective says, "I have for the most part given up on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Given that I am still in the stone age of dial-up internet access I need a browser that is quicker. Firefox is that browser. It is a lot faster than IE. "

Michael Oliver, at Dispositive says, "My eyes have seen the glory. I just downloaded and installed the new Mozilla FireFox browser (version 0.7 I think) and I am in love... This is the first browser that 1) works like IE 2) Contains all of the features I want (and some I didn't even think of) 3) Doesn't render most webpages like abstract art."

Eitan Levi, at skrud.net said, "If you’re not already using Firebird/Firefox/Phoenix, I suggest you start. Once you’ve experienced tabbed browsing you never go back."

Jack, at foundation.eleven.com says, "For now I think I'm done with Internet Explorer"

Stuart Homfray, at Weblog says, "On the whole, Firefox, like it's predecessor Firebird, is a fine, nippy little browser. I'm happy to keep it as my default browser for the foreseeable future - it seems at least as stable as IE 6, it's definitely smaller than IE 6, it supports Web Standards more than IE 6, and unlike IE 6, it's Open Source!"

Joe, at Attaboy says, "If you're looking for better browser performance, conside taking Firefox for a test drive. You might never go back to that 'other' browser."

Posted by asa at February 15, 2004 11:15 PM