[clue-talk] Why FireFox?

David Rudder david.rudder at reliableresponse.net
Thu Oct 18 16:30:11 MDT 2007


Memory Leaks in AJAX requests.  Unless you're very careful about setting 
DOM resources to null, IE will lock memory, eventually causing slowdowns 
crashes.  With the increase in AJAX applications on the web, this bug is 
becoming more critical and is already leading to increased support costs.

-Dave

David L. Willson wrote:
> Now that IE has tabs, popup-blocking, and a search-box, what are the
> three biggest reasons to use MFF?  I need something to tell the suits,
> when they ask me why I'm ~still~ installing MFF and changing the default
> browswer on all their boxen.  I'll start:
>
> 1. Implementation of W3C standards.  IE has a known one-pixel-off render
> bug, and has had for many years.  MFF fixes their bugs to be standards
> compliant.
>
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