FireFox vs. IceWeasel – Yet Another Open Source Disaster
Friends, as you know we’ve discussed the threat posed to corporate copyright by the defeatist copyleft ‘linux’ community. There’s been a lot of talk from the Chinese communist ‘open source’ thugs stating that Microsoft’s excellent range of products are losing ground, and that Linux’s time has come. Yet what the copyleft commies fail to point out is there’s a rebellion going on: I’m talking about the battle that recently erupted between FireFox and the new copyleft browser, IceWeasel.
Browser Wars: The Browser wars are back, but not the way the linux garage-hacker weinies want it to be: IceWeasel has started tearing into the linux flagship software browser FireFox, adding many new features and eating-up market share. It is only a matter of time before FireFox collapses from the damage it has taken.
FireFox proponents are constantly boasting about how being an ‘open source’ product it can include all kinds of features that a ‘closed’ proprietary browser like Microsoft’s amazing Internet Explorer cannot do. Yet a close examination shows that IceWeasel has completely caught up to FireFox in functionality: it has similar support for plug-ins, almost identical support for xml and css standards, java and javascript, and more. Even the buttons, tabs, and entire outline are the same. IceWeasel might as well be FireFox, it’s that advanced! Add to that IceWeasel’s secret weapon: Debian linux, an entire operating system built just to run IceWeasel. While nowhere near as capable as Windows Vista running Internet Explorer, IceWeasel ‘gets it’, they’ve custom-built a browser and operating system and meshed them perfectly together. Predictably Debian cannot do anything else except run IceWeasel in our tests. And Debian can only run IceWeasel badly. But they’re on the right path.
Sex Sells: As usual the linux gangsters had to resort to using sex as a sales tool, by getting these popular scandinavian twins to model the IceWeasel and FireFox logos. What they didn’t tell you is that the women who modeled were paid using free Ubuntu CDs and became so enraged they sued to get their pay back. Yet another reason to avoid ‘free’ software!
As Christians it is never acceptable for us to applaud other people’s misery. But this is one time we can take pride: IceWeasel is tearing FireFox’s heart out, battling tooth and nail for the tiny market share the ‘open source’ browsers have. In the end, it will be exactly as Microsoft’s management planned all along, both FireFox and IceWeasel will have ripped themselves to pieces, leaving Internet Explorer the only real browser left. Once again Microsoft’s sales-driven copyright strategy will have emerged victorious, another victory over a hacker-done copyleft-communist ‘linux’ browser.
Always Right,
Charles “Chuck” Roast
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You know a lot about operating systems. I guess you know that top 500 most powerful computers on the world are powered by Windows.
Charles
Thanks so much for your informative article.
In the end people will realize that there is no worth in products that are “free”. Microsoft invented the browswer and they still have the best product: The Internet Explorer, bundled with the most superior operating system there is: Windows Vista.
God bless,
Shelley N. Goodman
duh.
iceweasel basically IS firefox.
debian basically IS gnu/linux.
you basically IS teh sucker of the century.
this was waaay too easy.
apparently you’ve passed your best times, smelley.
so sad.
HAIL ERIS.
The picture is sooo disgusting. To see how disgusting it really is, look at http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4222/firefoxiceweaseltshirtjl1.jpg for a higher resolution version. For small devices you might even use it as a desktop background so you will never forget the evil on the world.
I have to say, this site rocks! It’s my daily entertainment. Love the use of absolute truths and weird arguments keep up the good work gang! Smite those evildoers!
“Browser Wars: The Browser wars are back, but not the way the linux garage-hacker weinies want it to be: IceWeasel has started tearing into the linux flagship software browser FireFox, adding many new features and eating-up market share. It is only a matter of time before FireFox collapses from the damage it has taken.”
LOL. Firefox and Iceweasel are exactly the same thing with differrent names. And despite that little rumbling, Mozilla and Debian are still getting along pretty well. Oh, and Firefox collapsing? LMAO. Protip: They don´t need paying customers or market shares, it´s open source.
“FireFox proponents are constantly boasting about how being an ‘open source’ product it can include all kinds of features that a ‘closed’ proprietary browser like Micrsoft’s amazing Internet Explorer cannot do.”
That´s because, frankly, IE sucks.
“Yet a close examination shows that IceWeasel has completely caught up to FireFox in functionality: it has similar support for plug-ins, almost identical support for xml and css standards, java and javascript, and more. Even the buttons, tabs, and entire outline are the same. IceWeasel might as well be FireFox, it’s that advanced!”
That´s because it *IS* Firefox. Just another name for the same thing.
“Predictably Debian cannot do anything else except run IceWeasel in our tests. And Debian can only run IceWeasel badly. But they’re on the right path.”
Obvious lie is obvious.
“IceWeasel is tearing FireFox’s heart out, battling tooth and nail for the tiny market share the ‘open source’ browsers have.”
Dream on. And that “tiny” market share? It´s getting bigger and bigger and Microsoft is loosing ground.
“In the end, it will be exactly as Microsoft’s management planned all along, both FireFox and IceWeasel will have ripped themselves to pieces, leaving Internet Explorer the only real browser left.”
Hello! Open source! It literally can´t be killed by losing market shares. That´s why the entire model is able to compete against a monopol in the first place.
“Microsoft invented the browswer”
False. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web together with Robert Cailliau, built the first working prototype in late 1990 and early 1991. That first prototype consisted of a web browser for the NeXTStep operating system. This first web browser, which was named “WorldWideWeb,” had a graphical user interface and would be recognizable to most people today as a web browser.
That was years before Microsoft was even founded.
The German Guy
So what happened to your usual software/tech commentator ??
This was just a quick update in the war against communist software: Jimmy has been busy passing-out bibles in the Sadr City slums of Baghdad but should be back soon.
Always Right
Thank you so much for this article; please keep on entertaining us with news on OpenSource. I really love your article about the Book of Mozilla, by the way :·D.
Where did you get the pin-up with the Iceweasel logo ? I’ve seen the other one already, but never this one :·D.
By the way, a cool Firefox extension : http://extensions.geckozone.org/Firebidule
(Sadly, it happens to be French only. If you want explanation about it, just ask me :·D)
well, as many people said here, IceWeasel IS FireFox, they just changed the name and some features because of the difference of their policyes.
And bout Debian, that Operating System has more than 10 years, how the fuck was supposed to be built FOR iceweasel?
That doesn’t make sense: we know from years ago when Microsoft integrated it’s browser and desktop together, that it was essential this be done. The courts ruled it was perfectly fair. So there’s no way to build an ‘operating system’ without a browser being built first: Microsoft’s shown that, and it’s just the plain truth.
Always Right
Firefox > Sissy-ass Internet Explorer
Operating systems existed before the internet you are aware. They were fully functional and everything. Browsers are added to the operating system,not the other way around. I though Christians love free stuff. It means people who have no money can have access to everything that they need. But then this is an extremely extremist blog on purpose, it is supposed to be crazed but come on, Christians don’t hate the poor, hence charity and whatnot, give to those who can’t get for themselves. Firefox is literally a charity so good that everyone can have it and it is better than the comparable products you could buy.
This blog really sucks. It’s like an Altar to Ignorance.
Who. Fucking. Cares?
“FireFox proponents are constantly boasting about how being an ‘open source’ product it can include all kinds of features that a ‘closed’ proprietary browser like Micrsoft’s amazing Internet Explorer cannot do.”
Microsoft is owned by Bill Gates who is an atheist.
Have a nice day.
So in essence as mary sue pointed out. Bill Gates is a godless heathen according to your logic Chuck Roast. See how much you fail? Oh by the way, the US Government uses Linux for their databases and servers. Are they commies too?
Bill Gates isn’t an atheist: he’s a rich sneaky Jew! What are you, racist?
Always Right
And what are you? An anti-semite? Jew is not a race. It’s a religion you fucking Nazi loving fascist.
Oh, I’m using that “commie” Firefox browser. Gonna do something about it punk?
Good Sir I would like to point out that though you signed your article with “Always Right” only God is always right. Or are you saying that you are God?
Lies, Lies, Lies. Is that what this website is all about?
Mistruth #1:
As pointed out by others:
IceWeasel IS firefox.
IceWeasel is dead.
It’s called IceCat and that change was announced in 2007, It is ported from firefox 2. It does not compete with the current firefox browser 3.
Blatant Lie:
Shelley Goodman: Microsoft Invented the Browser?
Yes and Al Gore invented the internet too.
Is there no end? Microsoft does not invent very much. IBM does. Microsoft purchases smaller companies that have already invented something, or just copies them.
Actually there were around 10 browsers created BEFORE microsoft ever released version 1 of IE (did anyone ever use IE version 1 or 2 for that matter? They were truly bad browsers.)
This reference doesn’t even include the early work by Tim Berners-Lee’s which preceded even lynx (which is an excellent command line text based browser still available and works great)
reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_timeline
IceWeasel eating up firefox’s market shares?!?!?!
Really um… what market shares? LAST TIME I CHECKED IT WAS A FUCKIN FREE PROGRAMME!!!
Firefox 3.5 preview or Opera are better than the crap of IE 7,8+ because Windows only like Windows and he create his shitty property code and languages intead of the STANDARDS approved.
For example: In IE6 the transparent PNG’s see like image with a shitty rectangle fucks you web
why in IE the CSS have specific codes ONLY for this puke of navigator. because IE have to need Wrappers or codes which make the conversion of the original code
I’M SPANISH HEHE
I’M USING LINUX AND FFox3.5
i think this type of websites should be stopped or deleted
oh yes it’s hilarious, but, hey, this could not be acceptable:
- try to say Canonical harm animals to test Ubuntu
- try to convince Linux is a commie OS
- try to believe to the general public Linux and the FOSS business (yes, business) is a danger for the economy
I think FSF must know that and someone mut SUE THIS SITE.
Freedom of speech (and satire). I loved the “twins” picture. Its called the mirror option in any photo edidting software, followed by editing what was on the shirt.
Again, STR, l2 photoshop b3tt3r.
@ Aihwa.
That’s right, freedom this, freedom that, free as in freedom, except when we don’t like it, right. Pinko commie bastard.
You guys realisse that this site is run by people who love Jesus right? I mean they’re hardcore seriouz business!
@ Steve
So wait, you want me to demand the site be taken down?
I just defended STR’s right to be here, and to be ridiculed of course.
:D i love this site. what a genius way to provoke people (into pointing out the truth). lol. it’s like reading uncyclopedia. :D
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
pick a topic you already know about and it’ll have you in stitches.
You want to suck Bill Palmer’s dick??!!
Stop of lying!!
ahh of course you are a fascistian republican I forgot that point!! fuck you republicans!!!
… you have the right to free speech, however you also have the right to remain silent because know this, what you say will always be used against you. I’m not sure what generation you are a member of, or where you live, but the things you say in this article – are – foolish at best. Why you seem to be so offended by open-source software is a mystery to me, I prefer windows 7 over Linux… however I find that mozilla is more user friendly and better protected than internet explorer, the fact that it’s free has never bothered me. I still don’t understand why it bothers you. let our capitalist society see the strength of the open-source movement, it gives true corporations some well needed competition, remember competition is they key to a healthy capitalist society… I love free, especially when it’s top quality…
IE is to browsing what Front Page is to web design.
I run a combination of Linux and Windows in the office. Both have strengths and weaknesses. The linux server is stable and secure. It only gets rebooted when we go on vacations. The vista laptop will run anything and (despite vista’s foibles) is stable and fast. I don’t want Linux on the laptop or microsoft on the server. This combination works quite well.
The only absolute statement I make is: Absolute statements are for stupid people, as is evidenced by this ‘article’.
Sharing and community is not communism. If it is than every church is a Marxist stronghold of sharing and community.
IceWeasel IS firefox. The only thing that’s different is the artwork. The reason being that the Debian development philosophy requires all included software to be licensed using the BSD or the GPL license. Firefox’s artwork is copyrighted by Mozilla, which violates this philosophy. So they replaced the copyrighted artwork with free artwork, rename it IceWeasel, and package it along with Debian.
Firefox’s artwork is copyrighted by Mozilla, which violates this philosophy. So they replaced the copyrighted artwork with free artwork, rename it IceWeasel, and package it along with Debian.
As usual all linux lusers can do is lie. You’re all really stupid!
Always Right
How is it possible that all these people don’t get these brilliant articles? Incredible. Is it really that Linux users have no sense of Jesus?
Never mess with hardcore Christians!
… Or maybe you guys write the comments as well :D
Hahahaahahahahaahahha
Must be darn hard work :)
If you think you are smart stop writing what you are thinking, it makes you look stupid. Or at least ask someone who is smarter than you if you wrote correctly.
You think you are a Christian? using this name has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth that died on the cross and rose again, nor with being born again.
The Bible says that “all liars [...] shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” That inculdes you too, Charles “Chuck” Roast.
No worries, it includes everyone else on the earth that don’t change their ways and don’t come to God.
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
Don’t fool yourself!!
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21
I’ve never even heard of Ice-Weasel until now. Could you possibly be trying to…promote open-source software? But that would be…c-cc-c-c…COMMUNIST!! Ah, it hurt to say that word (not really).
Oh, and by that guy up there–sharing and community is in fact the basis of communism, just not Sovietism. People often confuse the two. And yes, churches are communist. It’s one of the few things I like about them.
Chuck Roast: It is completely possible to build an Operating system without a web-browser, but it would be near pointless in today’s world.
Oh, and Firefox isn’t going to ‘die’ any time soon. Mozilla isn’t just an open-source browser creator, it is also a non-profit organization with many other projects. And as long as someone has it, even is the Mozilla Foundation somehow collapsed, someone would bring it back. Even if it was me, someone would do it, or it would live on in programs such as Ice-Weasel. This is the reason it is open source. People can do whatever they want with it, improve it in any way they see fit, create their own programs to go with it…This is why Firefox isn’t going to ‘die; any time soon. Because it will always be there, either physically or in belief, that people don’t have to succumb to the norm or the established order.
We’re not going anywhere. And there’s nothing you, your party, or even your church can do about it
Have a nice day.
Why do you attack Open Source browsers?
BTW,
That rather looks like a picture from GoDaddy.com.
The site for lesbos.
are you all joking?
Because the article can only be written by a person who never read anything about debian, iceweasel, firefox and free stuff, etc,etc.
The only reason to write such misleading article is to provoke people to say the thruth.
So… Are you provoking me?