Forbes magazine dol enthousiast over Firebird

[Erik]

Op de website van Forbes magazine is een artikel verschenen over Firebird. Onder de titel 'Building A Better Browser' wordt toegelicht waarom men Firebird beter vindt dan IE.

Forbes is onder andere erg blij met de tab functionaliteit, maar zeker ook met de build-in popup-blocker.

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Within minutes, it becomes clear that Firebird is a breath of fresh air compared to Explorer. If you're fond of keeping many browser windows open at once, then you'll like the tabbed browsing feature native to Firebird which lets you open a new browser window on a "tab" in order to switch back and forth from one site to another, without searching through several layers. It's easy, for example, to keep one window open to a Web mail account, another open to a news site and still two more open for perusing other sites. It's also easy to open bookmarks--what Microsoft calls "favorites"--in a new tab with a single right-click of the mouse.
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Toch duikt er weer een vreemd stukje tekst op in het artikel van Forbes:

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"Firebird is available for a free download from Mozilla and is currently at version 0.7, which means it has not quite reached the point of being a fully stable product. Eventually Firebird will become the default Mozilla browser, although that won't happen before it reaches version 1.5."
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Blijkbaar hebben de heren de oude roadmap van het mozilla project gebruikt, die inmiddels al niet meer klopt.

Het volledige artikel is te lezen op <a href="http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2004 ... ntech.html" target="_blank">de website van forbes</a>