Firefox Myths Testimonials

This page includes some of the testimonials recieved for Firefox Myths

"After reading your Firefox Myths page I felt like my eyes were open. I have been developing over IE platform for many years and recently had an opportunity to port an IE add-on to work over Firefox 1.5. I find IE's development environment and documentation are much more complete and robust than that of Firefox, for example in the MSHTML engine the provided interfaces for interaction with the DOM give more capabilities than the script objects and in Firefox it is the other way around. Needless to say, writing an add-on in C++ using interfaces gives a much more mature package than a bunch of scripts and XML. After working on Firefox, I couldn't help feeling that the hype does not exactly fit the reality. Your site confirmed that feeling for me. All in all, through the years, I feel that Microsoft has done quite a good job on the technical side, and all the people accusing MS of all the problems of the world are just pushing their own political agenda." - Oren L.

"I commend you on your web site, it's very good, and informative. Well done. I must comment on Firefox, I fell for all the blag about how good it is. What a serious mistake I made. I should have stayed with IE...! Also, I have tried other browsers, Opera(a few versions), Netscape to name 2, but unfortunately, most web sites are developed for IE. So I now use the latest version (IE7). But getting back to Firefox, I found quite a lot of the sites I visited would not load up properly, or just wouldn't load up, or the browser would just stall. Pop-ups that Opera and IE stopped, Firefox would let through, and as you said about the speed of the browser from start-up, it was so slow I couldn't believe it. After persevering with it for a month, I eventually gave up on it, and going back to IE, it seemed like I had a supersonic browser. I appreciate all browsers have faults, but some have more than I can stand, and I am sure there are people like me elsewhere who feel the same. But IE works, as does Opera to a large extent, and they work better than Firefox on Windows. I shall continue to search for other browsers, and try them out, but for the present, to me anyway, Firefox is a no-no. Thank you for your time and effort in building your site." - Ian W.

"I agree with EVERY single word that came out of your mouth! You couldn't have said it any better than I about Firefox! "Fanboys" Ha! LOL More like Fannyboys! BUNCH OF A$$ES! I was fooled into believing that Firefox actually would make my web surfing faster, more secure and all it did was make me more vulnerable for security risks which DID cause me problems and, not to mention, lag my pc down! Great article! I have forwarded it to many friends and family. Got a lot of positive responses about what you had to say! Keep up the good work and God Bless!" - Frank O.

"I just want to send a note regarding the memory usage of Firefox version 2.0.0.1. This version uses a lot of memory. After browsing the internet for half a day, Firefox uses about 163 megabytes of memory. I only have 448 megabytes of memory. 64 is being shared with the video card. I have also been running Opera 9.10 half a day. However, Opera only uses 63 megabytes of memory. I think that Firefox is not handling memory as efficiently as Opera. Even though Firefox is using a lot of memory, navigating pages is a bit slow. Firefox's cache feature is not working well." - Simba B.

"I am an Opera user and loved your site. You should see some of the arguments I have to hear whenever I'm on IRC and someone asks for a browser recommendation. I simply try to tell people that I've used Firefox for a long time, have recently changed over to Opera and have found it to be much better for me than any version of Firefox has been. Not that I'm blindly following my new browser either, I still have copies of other browsers installed and updated to their most current versions, but even with the improvements in Firefox with it's 2.x releases I still find Opera to be a better choice. Of course my voice is usually immediately buried in a torrent of accusations from fanboys who call me everything from a liar to a traitor for saying there is something that serves me better than Firefox. You'd think I was selling out my country or something, rather than recommending an alternative to their "alternate browser" of choice, based on the venom of their replies." - Morghan P.

"Hehe, nice page. I've known about many of those myths, and independently proven many wrong, but I've never bothered to publish my results. Did you know Firefox degrades BADLY on older systems? It can't handle low memory or slow processors as well as other browsers (like IE and Opera). It takes about 20-30 seconds to load on my old MacBook Titanium (400mhz processor with 256mb ram running OSX 10.4). In short, I like the clean, professional manner in which you presented all those myths. I looked at some of the sources to ensure you were in fact quoting fact, and I find them to be sound. You have put something together to be proud of." - Evan D.

"I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank you for the information provided on your page. I have a friend who loves Firefox and complains all the time that I still use Internet Explorer. I forwarded him a copy of your page and now feel much better about the whole thing! I just can't get into using Firefox no matter how much I try. Thanks again." - Andy E.

"I recently read your Firefox Myths page, and I'd like to say that it was an interesting read. As I use Firefox myself, some of the stuff was shocking, but a part of me didn't care. Most people would quit using Firefox after this, but I'm one of those people that don't care about what browser they use, so I'll keep using Firefox until I have a massive reason to switch. Thanks for the good read on Firefox TRUTHS." - Justin W.

"I've just found your interesting Firefox Myth page. I must say that I really enjoyed reading your page. I was amazed to learn that Internet Explorer is much better than I thought. I believed a lot of these Firefox myths. Since I am a Opera user since Version 6, I really don't like Firefox very much. Firefox is too conservative for me. Like you said: "Many popular Firefox Extensions are already supported in Opera by default." When Firefox 2 was released the German media stated that Firefox is the most innovative Browser today. All its innovative features were well known to me because the origin of these "Firefox innovations" were in Opera and some of them had been included in Opera years earlier. Thanks for your interesting Firefox Myth page. Keep up the good work. I really liked seeing Internet Explorer and Firefox from a different perspective." - Sebastian K.

"I just thought I would let you know how great I think your Firefox myths page is. It is so nice to read the work of somebody who has not been taken in by Mozilla's marketing (or the fanboys). I was an Internet Explorer 6 user until about two and half to three years ago, when a friend persuaded me to try Firefox. Admittedly, I though it was great for about a week, but after endless unexplained freezes and crashes, I switched to Opera and have never looked back. So many people claim that Firefox being open source makes it so much better, however compared to Opera Firefox's coding appears very sloppy indeed. Long start up times, constant restarts whenever you want to switch skins (or install extensions) or stop it from using up 100s of megabytes of memory. It quickly becomes very tiresome. I find Opera so much leaner (not to mention its more secure, faster and has all the features that nearly everybody could ever want from a web browser). It even has the email client I am using to send this to you. Congrats again on a fantastic web page I'll be forwarding it to certain Firefox adoring friends." - Mike W.

"I'm very glad I have found your link clarifying a couple of myths about Firefox. I'm a student following a computer orientated subject, and I am both using primarily Opera and at times Internet explorer (I have used Fx before, but since it crashed one too many times, I put it aside). the problem is that my fellow students, all Fx users have a problem with this. Problem is of course that I really never have put any thought in what browser I should use (and just to oblige them, I've given Fx another chance without success). Anyway, my point is that now I have some perfectly well supported information that I can use to tell them why I in fact do NOT use Firefox. I didn't know any of that stuff about Opera - I use opera because it doesn't crash, and now use it because of sessions (people never mention sessions, I don't know why, I think it's one of the most powerful and most brilliant browsing options). In fact, having read your article, some people who I presumed were telling the truth have been telling lies (i.e. tabs invented by Fx, Fx best support, Fx fastest, Fx has inline search (I had no idea what that was, but they kept telling me Fx was the first) best pop-up blocker and so on). Thanks thus for giving me info to retaliate, and some new reasons why I should use Opera." - S.B.

"You have made a nice page, with nice arguments about Firefox, yet I think the same crew who say "Firefox is secure" claim "Linux is secure" even if evidence states otherwise. Their tactics is speaking about virus, worm and other mass attacks targeting different platforms. Sadly they forget about 2 things about security: 1. How many lines of defense do you have? 2. How tempting a target you are? While the first comparison would favor Internet Explorer and Windows in many ways, the second comparison is where Linux and Firefox shines. Why? Because less user = less targets for your attacks. And harder to find a valid target. With inviting more users to the Firefox camp, and inviting clueless people to that camp, and giving them a false sense of security, so removing what little security awareness they had, and discouraging them to use any good security measures make these people a big, visible and pretty much unprotected target. Combined with the lines of defense argument, and the facts you presented that questioned how secure Firefox is, it can get to a pretty dangerous situation. And if that happens, I won't want to be a Firefox user. While Firefox can have other advantages, and they can be good enough to make you use it often (if you know how to protect your computer) this is a risk. While one can say "It is hard to make a worm that targets a browser", you can make a worm that targets both web sites and browsers, and you can use any Firefox vulnerability in conjunction with any vulnerability in software used on your web servers. And Unix based servers, php based web sites, common scripts can be a tempting target already. Choosing your OS, choosing your browser is a choice you based on trust, and it has significant effects on your security. Using a browser because and using software (including addons, etc.) partly or fully developed by these liars is risky. Even more risky, when some of these liars are hackers, and due to these lies you become an easy target, and they can be happy with your credit card numbers. Warning people about all the myths and lies can help to protect them from threats. Not warning them because they support your software, and letting them face the risk is betraying your users. This is why I can't recommend Firefox. Admitting fault and trying to fix problems, moving from hype and lies to improvement would be a step both Firefox and Linux communities should take if they want any improvement." - Gergely V.

"Just stumbled on your page. It was very revealing to me to actually see someone list fact and source instead of blindly spouting crap to seem 'leet'. For example, I have a customer that I work with whose son was getting married. The bride-to-be's brother was doing the website and hosted it on mac.com. We'll skip past the issue that mac.com required anyone visiting to login (which he eventually removed citing that he only wanted to make sure that not just anyone could view the page) and head straight to the relevant portion. If you went to the page by IE it launched the code for Explorer Destroyer that told you that you could not view it with IE. On a freakin wedding site. Once you made it past by clicking the very small 'continue to the site' link half the images and pages were broken. When the customer finally go to the site and saw all the broken stuff this guy actually came over and said that the problem was that they didn't have FF installed and proceeded to install it, make it the default browser, etc. I didn't charge them everything I should have when I had to come back and fix the stuff he did, but it still wasn't free. It truly boggles the mind that FF fans think that because they have FF installed, they have half a clue about anything else on a computer. What these people fail to take into account is that there is NO SUCH THING AS A BULLET PROOF OPERATING SYSTEM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BULLET PROOF BROWSER. All it takes is enough market share and then the hackers turn their sites on you. As a matter of fact, I'm sure there are many of the people who started using FF way back when who would have preferred that people just shut up about it so that the hackers would never even bother exploiting it. Anyway, thanks for standing firm in the face of people emailing junk, posting lies, etc. Truth is a hard thing to come to grips with if it goes against everything you have ever been told." - Tim C.

"Great page. It confirms my opinion 100%. If you like Firefox, fine. Use it. Just don't go off thinking that it is better, more secure, etc. I had a tech that worked for me who would go out and install Firefox all over the place when he was assigned to fix an IE issue on an employee computer. Never mind that we were using online services that we paid a lot of money to that stated that they certified their service for "Internet Explorer 6x only." You'd think that statement would be enough for him to fix the issues he was sent to fix. And, as you are well aware, a lot of browser issues stem from broken Java installs, bad extensions/add-ons, etc. Nope. "Just install Firefox - its better." Fanboys. Don't you just love them? Again, thanks for the page. I'll be giving the URL to a lot of folks." - Jim

"I thoroughly enjoyed your Firefox myths page. Excellent. I work with a fanboy (Linux and Firefox) who grates on my nerves (oddly enough he has never even used Linux...don't try figuring it out, I still haven't). I use all 4 of the major browsers (Web developer) so I have a pretty good understanding of all of them and their pro's and cons. Firefox is by far the worst browser on my computer. While I'm partial to IE7 (old habits, I gotta code for most of the people first after all), I like Opera and "gasp" even Safari for PC better than Firefox. Firefox out of the "box" starts slower, renders slower and as of version 3, does not play Flash movies on some websites for whatever reason. I do not like Safari's font rendering and form control rendering but otherwise is a fine browser. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know amidst the sea of hate mail from stupid fanboys who are geeky little twerps with no real knowledge of what's going on, what an excellent site and I will spread the word about it." - Adam W.

"Wanted to say I loved the expose on these people who believe the lies spread by Firefox fanboys, I work as a security consultant for several large firms in London and also as an alpha and beta tester for a large internet security product company, and I find it amusing how all of these fanboys recite the lies and slander they read on pro-Firefox webpages, without even doing any research, heck, you could probably publish a webpage saying the world was flat and they'd insist that it was true, because, as we all know, the internet is totally lie-free, (add sarcasm as you see fit)." - Scott B.

"I have read and referred to it several times, and I just love it. I think that Firefox may seem fast, nimble, and quick at first, I have found that it is featureless without any extensions. People saying that Firefox supports something while, in reality, it is the extension that supports it is stupid, and, as soon as you add one extension, it becomes terribly bloated, taking a lot of disk space, memory, and rendering the computer completely unusable. I have found that Opera is much lighter and quicker, and it is feature rich without requiring any extensions.In fact, when I tried to replicate Opera's functionality in Firefox (using over 20 extensions), it looked and felt like a cheap copy. Opera is simply the best browser, and I owe it to your page to teach me that." - Miguel W.

"I would like to thank you for making this page, I found it accidentally while looking up some programs i am going to be putting on my laptop that i am getting in a few months to keep it Virus/Spyware free and Firefox was at the top of my list till i saw the link to your site that someone had posted on yahoo answers.com. When i first saw it i thought to myself "well this should be amusing." I use to be blind and thought Firefox was the greatest thing out there, but your site has proven other wise, in fact i have decided to go with Opera when i buy my laptop and after sending this email I'm deleting Firefox and installing Opera on it as well. I chose Opera because like your site showed it uses less memory and i did some research on the web browser and people say it is stable. I bookmarked your site to show my friends and to let them know of the lies that we have been fed. Keep up the good work." - Josh

"I am a Network Administrator, but I'm fairly new in the field. I try to learn as much as I can and still always feel so undereducated. I try my best to read as much as I can about new discoveries and innovations. I came across your web site by accident, and I'm glad I did. My supervisor really likes Mozilla Firefox and prefers it over Internet Explorer. I have always believed that you should allow people to speak their mind and - whats fine for one person may not be so for another. I got so much out of your page and really appreciate people like yourself who put so much time and energy into educating the public about misunderstandings that occur frequently. You are very well spoken and I learned a lot. I now have some ammunition to approach my supervisor as to why his beliefs about Firefox may not be accurate and I thank you. I hope you are able to continue with your research and I wish that others would allow the right of Free Speech to prevail instead of always trying to force their opinions and views upon those who don't want to hear it. Thanks again." - Sherri J.

"I just stumbled upon your Firefox Myths page and was immediately drawn in. After reading it from top to bottom, i felt like congratulating you on creating such a great and informative page. Being an avid user of Firefox myself, I already knew many shortcomings but I wasn't aware of the whole Firefox-Fanboy situation out there. So, thanks for opening my eyes. Also, I'm a journalist and I find your page is a great example for good research. Unfortunately, as you already stated several times on it, opinions is what people use most to get a point across instead of relying on facts. I was also active in debunking myths (though not Firefox, but game related), so I feel with you. I hope this mail is a little ray of sunlight in the massive amount of fanboy spam you must receive. Keep up the good work!" - Xiaopang

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