[CS-FSLUG] Is FireFox anti-microsoft?

Alvin Smith alvin at tux.org
Sat Feb 5 05:24:28 CST 2005


On Friday 04 February 2005 10:08 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> Are there any other file systems besides MS that either use drive letters
> or do not have a single  'root' directory (MS has a root dir for each drive
> letter)?  I ask because I thought I found a bug in FireFox:
>          http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=213537
> But when I searched Bugzilla, I found this one that seems the same:
>         
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321>https://bugzilla.mozil
>la.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321 Now I'm wondering if the FireFox people have
> taken an anti-microsoft stand, but are pretending not to?


I think Mozilla is just conforming to standards.  The Internet was born on 
*nix, built on *nix, and will continue to grow and and develop further on 
*nix.  Departure from standards comes from MS and IE trying "influence" web 
development with conventions that originate from a single user OS.

"Unarmed" is correct to say that "using relative links is the best 
cross-browser and cross-platform solution".

-- 
peace,
Alvin Smith
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