Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 predictions
By Bulletz. Filed in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla |
Firefox 3 is going to become an entity in and of itself. From the wiki that I read on FF3, Mozilla is going after the highest prize: becoming a stand alone information module. Their 3rd version will be bigger, better, and stronger than any other version thus far. Firefox 4 is already in the works for 2008, as well. Gran Paradiso, as the third installment has been dubbed, will be out in the third quarter of this year. Microformats are the key to Mozilla turning this browser into something really huge. If Mozilla can succeed in becoming the information broker, they will blow the competition out of the water.
Internet Explorer 8, I fathom, will still end up with major security issues. Microsoft seems to be plagued with having to make patch after patch for their products. They also suffer from copycat-itis. One day I was looking at a screenshot that I could have sworn was FF2 but it was IE7! I guess they figure that something so popular can’t be bad. They are trying to build on the interface and make it their own, but it’s coming off really really wrong.
I know I seem rather biased against everything Microsoft, but believe me, if they got their stuff together and became as they once were I would be singing their praises. I mean, come on! They are going to be supporting microformats in their next upgrade, too. The skins are starting to look alike. I have a feeling they will be forever trying to play catch up on this one.
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