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LXer: Firefox 0.8 is the Release that Won Me Over

[ Thanks to LXer for
this link. ]

“Since I dropped Netscape 4.78 in late 2001, I’ve been happily
using Galeon, a Gecko-based browser for GNOME. My web use is heavy
(my days are spent in a web browser: reading news sites, developing
PHP code, etc) and I need a browser that is stable and fast. Has
Mozilla Firefox finally broken the speed and stability barriers in
order to bring about a browser change to this long-time Galeon
user?

“My rule of thumb is this: the computer should try to be faster
than I am. If I find myself waiting for the computer to do
something, then I need to find out what’s the bottleneck. My view
is this: the bottleneck should always be the human…”

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