Blake pointed me to this great PCWorld.com article, How to Build Better Software: It's Simple which opens by posing the question, "Firefox is mean, lean, smart, and rock-solid. Why is that so unusual?"
Author Harry McCracken goes on to praise Firefox (and Thunderbird) for what I believe to be pretty much all the right reasons. He says "Firefox focuses on doing ordinary tasks uncommonly well" and concludes with "These apps aren't the most feature-rich in their categories, but they don't feel dumbed down. Matter of fact, they feel smartened up--and I'd love to see everything from office suites to system tools take some cues from them."
It's a great article that does a nice job highlighting what I love about what we've accomplished -- building smart applications that do ordinary tasks uncommonly well.
For that, PCWorld has crowned a new browser champion, saying of Firefox that it "is safer and livelier, and it offers a better Web experience than any other browser out there--and not just because Microsoft has made a mess of market-leader Internet Explorer."
