FireFox 0.9x

I tend to keep going back and trying out the Mozilla browser offerings simply to check my html against another browser when something odd is happening. I have never been partial to it or it's variants but I have to say the current FireFox browserversion is simply very nicely done. It even provides a handful of useful extensions that make html development a bit easier. It really is worth having a look if you haven't already seen or used it.

I know it won't be replacing my IE any time soon if at all.All the clients of my clients have standardized on IE and quite simply I still find it very programmable and a very useful tool (security issues aside). I am looking forward to the results of the new upstart in development attention the IE browser is getting from Microsoft.

I certainly don't long for the days of the browser wars with major updates all the time but some good healthly competition will certainly improve the baseline itself.

Just a quick aside; FireFox was orginally called FireBird but that conflicted with the Open Source InterBase software project. It is nice to see them change the name since the InterBase group had already been there.