[Techtalk] Mozilla v. Firefox

[Kai MacTane]

At 1/25/05 06:34 PM , Carla Schroder wrote:
>If you were tasked with selecting a cross-platform Web browser to standardize
>on for developing Web apps, would you choose Mozilla or Firefox? Or something
>else entirely?  Firefox is all fashionable now, but how do they compare for
>developers?

My first thought: Mozilla is likely to be a more "uniform" platform. Sure 
people can install extensions on either one, but I get the impression that 
it's more common in the Firefox world. Certainly there are more extensions 
that work only on Firefox than there ones that only work on Mozilla. 
(Though I *think* that over 50% of them will work on either browser.)

Of course, if your app isn't too complicated, and if it doesn't rely too 
carefully on some nit-picky behavior of the underlying platform, then it'll 
probably work just fine on both the fox and the lizard.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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