Re: UltraRecall

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4639

Posted by srdiamond15
2005-12-01 21:08:38

>Meanwhile, I am at a loss to understand why a company that introduced a product (UR) in such a competant and professional manner, would fail to recognize the importance of Firefox integration, wild and perhaps unfounded hopes about the new IE notwithstanding.<

I don’t know Kinook’s reasons, but I certainly do not agree that it is incompetent or unprofessional to hold a different view of the Firefox fad or to change one’s opinion when Firefox developed critical security flaws or once the reality of Firefox’s slowness caught up with the myth of its speed. In any event, it turns reality on its head to think that a commercial product should necessarily adapt to become compatible with a program that everyone’s using mainly because it’s free. I mean, if IE could be improved upon that much, someone would have profited from the ability to create a better browser. People who use Firefox generally won’t even consider a browser they have to pay for. That tells me the difference in “browsing experience” just isn’t that great. Firefox is some kind of anti-Microsoft _symbol_, and I’m completely satisfied that Kinook isn’t spending time catering to it. I’d much rather have hoisting a few weeks earlier than have adaptation to various semi-identical browsers. (But isn’t the problem really that ADM broke IE on your system? :))

Stephen Diamond

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