I just read over at Behind the Curtain at TCG that NASA is moving away from IE to Firefox. Wonderful!
Posted by: Sumguy231 | December 4, 2005 6:47 PM
It would be nice of people behind Ff realise importance of e-mail and work little bit more on Thunderbird. IM hit e-mail popularity hard - but the e-mail is something the true importance of we used to disregard.
While Ff enjoys quite much attention, Tb development seems to be very reserved.
After two years of useage in office, Tb starts looking more and more like MS Outlook Express parody.
After so many years, the only true Mozilla - Netscape Messenger 4.x - still the most stable and feature full MUA.
Posted by: Ihar `Philips` Filipau | December 5, 2005 3:50 AM
@Ihar: complaining without specifics doesn't get anyone headed anywhere worthwhile. If you can point to specific changes that need to be made, that would be helpful. Otherwise, you are just a troll.
@sumguy231 - I don't see that problem.
Posted by: Greg | December 5, 2005 7:21 AM
Great News about Nasa. Although it appears that it is not infact the case. On the subject of Thunderbird: Why do new messages open in new windows? Could they replace the inbox or open in tabs?
@sumguy231 - No problems on Firefox 1.5.
Posted by: SamD | December 5, 2005 9:04 AM
@sumguy231:
I see it too. Using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5"
Posted by: Remy | December 5, 2005 11:23 AM
whoah multi bliion dallor couple loosing IE for a "fee" opensource projrect that's asamazinting, asa we all shoudlk be pride of firefox becuz it iz jast that sackussfall, and will les fase it, it iz a preeety dorn geed browdsy.! i live firefox sew munch!
Posted by: Riy ohyui | December 5, 2005 12:22 PM
Works fine with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051130 Firefox/1.6a1
IE with just one too many flaws. The security "people" claim that FF has more flaws that IE has had this year, but from what I've been seeing the IE flaws are much greater in scope. Too bad I can't convince the company I work for about this.
Posted by: sadatoni | December 5, 2005 1:51 PM
Online tabloid the Inquirer reports:
according to Tony Facca, Project Manager, NASA Desktop Standards Group, Firefox's conquest of the space agency is far from complete. Facca said that while it wouldn't surprise him that someone somewhere is encouraging users to dump IE, NASA standard (NASA-STD-2804) requires both browsers. "The standard is referenced as a requirement by NASA’s application developers and service providers. If someone is directing NASA employees to remove IE from their desktops, they are doing so against the direction of the Agency CIO and this could cause interoperability issues for these users." He said that any move to Firefox, if it was occurring, was happening "under the radar". No official requests have been made to his group to alter the standard or evaluate the impact to interoperability of dropping IE from the standard.
Sorry Asa :(
Posted by: Limulus | December 6, 2005 4:41 AM
w00t!
P.S. For me, the comment box flows all the way off the right side of the screen. Does anyone else see this?