Microsoft(R) Firefox...

[BLiZZaRD]

http://www.msfirefox.com/

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen! ROTF!

[djr33]

The sole purpose of a Chief Executive Officer on the Microsoft Board of Directors, is to be entertaining.Heh.

Amusing. A bit too much to read without enough punchlines, but there's some good stuff there.

As for their code, there IS a reason for external .css stylesheets.

[BLiZZaRD]

I have found punch lines on every page.. the "support" area FAQs are hilarious!

[djr33]

Yeah, every page... just a bit more text on each page than is that worth it for the two or three punchlines. But they're good ones.

[BLiZZaRD]

Oh, I realize this isn't everyone's idea of comedy, I personally think it was very well written and put together, and the subtle jokes are great and well placed.

I really like the download page (no "go" button) and the FAQs are great.

Cracks me up. I hope it stays up long enough at least for me to go through and read all thepages :D

[djr33]

Ha, yeah.

What's the download?

Does the mail thing actually work?

[BLiZZaRD]

didn't try the mail thing, the download is where you go to "download" the browser. Of course it ends up at a dead end, after it asks you for your OS and then click go to enter your credit card info. There is no go button :)

[djr33]

Er... no.

If you are using FF on a PC (at least I was, not sure if it's related), and choose "XP SP2" in the dropdown, the go button (which DOES exist) triggers a download of a file called IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe, but I doubt it's really the official version of IE7 and that they'd actually be serving a file that is clearly against their views of what is good and would be worth serving.

[BLiZZaRD]

hmm, I was also using FF on PC.. chose the same selection as you...

weird. Could have been my computer at work though.. it does a lot of weird things :D

[Twey]

Fx2/Linux does display a button, but it displays the button around two pixels high, without a caption, directly under the select :)

[tech_support]

Funny :D. Tried signing up:

Terms and Conditions:


You must love no one else but Microsoft.

:D

Edit: The mail actually works!

[thetestingsite]

This is just too funny. On the features page it states that it supports RSS (Not the real meaning, and the description is just too funny. I like the icon they made up though.

[tacmig99]

The download is taken directly from download.microsoft.com
It just gives you the IE7 installation.

[BigDen13]

Funny joke, but really IE has lower system requirements than FF. On my Celeron 533 Mhz and 256mb IE6 run MUCH faster than FF 1.5 and 2.0

[jscheuer1]

Funny joke, but really IE has lower system requirements than FF. On my Celeron 533 Mhz and 256mb IE6 run MUCH faster than FF 1.5 and 2.0

That's only if you do not count the system resources taken up by the malware IE 6 will almost inevitably install on your system when used as the primary browser and you are not very, very careful about how you use it.

[Twey]

Fx is indeed famously fat. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to judge the memory usage of IE because it relies heavily on code in the kernel, so while IE itself may take up very little space, it's likely that your kernel would have a much smaller memory footprint were it not for IE. This also has the effect of making it very difficult to perform reliable comparisons with IE, since while you're testing the other browser, IE is effectively still running, whereas when you close the other browser to test IE, IE will be running alone.

[jscheuer1]

Oh, and FF can be sped up with a few configuration tricks. Its javascript multi-threading is poor though, and I've found no way to fix that via configuration. There may be a way(s) I'm not aware of. In case I've used the wrong term, by multi-threading I mean the ability to carry out two of the same operations at the same time, like two divs sliding or fading into view at once. When FF does these sorts of things the effect loses some of the smoothness it has in IE or even in FF if these things are done only one at a time.