"Internet Explorer, you're fired."
Rob Pegoraro, in the Washington Post, says "Tuesday, the answer to IE arrived: a safe, free, fast, simple and compatible browser called Mozilla Firefox." He goes on to praise the clean interface and sane default preference settings and gives a nice rundown of Firefox's feature advantages. Rob concludes saying, "I think anybody using Internet Explorer should switch to Firefox today. Seriously. Even if you've loaded every IE security update, Firefox will give you a faster, more useful view of the Web. If you haven't -- or if you use a pre-XP version of Windows ineligible for Service Pack 2's security fixes -- it would be lunacy to stick with IE.".
This kind of mainstream press is really exciting. If you've got a minute, e-mail Rob Pegoraro at rob@twp.com, and let him know you appreciate this informative article.
Posted by asa at November 14, 2004 12:04 PMDo you have a link to that article? I'd like to read it before I comment to the author, plus I think it's only fair to give them some extra hits to such a postive article.
Posted by: Dave on November 14, 2004 01:28 PMIt's here : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47146-2004Nov13.html
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Posted by: Phil Randal on November 14, 2004 01:43 PMYou can get to it by going through Gooogle News.
Posted by: Seamus on November 14, 2004 02:10 PMI got a reply!
>[taestell] wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> I'm just writing to thank you for writing an honest article about
>> Mozilla Firefox. Not many members of the press are willing to take the
>> time to research other web browsers, but it looks like you have. This
>> kind of intelligent journalism will keep me and many others reading The
>> Washington Post and your articles.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> [taestell]
>
>You're welcome.
>
>- R
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Posted by: Sridhar on November 18, 2004 06:14 AM