Asa spins for Firefox
Wednesday, 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
So, what do you do if the major point of your marketing campaign is 'we are more secure', and you have to release monthly security updates just like MSIE anyway? And you have some minor open issues anyway? You spin it. I'm glad Opera 8's PR is not focusing solely on the security!
In your next post, you bash your competetitor by saying "it's almost as good as our product now", ignoring that many people obviously think the bigger feature set makes that other product already much more usable, despite a few trivial quibbles you have with it (Offering some information during the installation? A text selection cursor? Is that the best you can come up with?).
To make it complete, you then describe a new experimental feature not available in your normal builds, which might one day come to normal releases, as the best thing since sliced bread, and completely fail to mention that the competitor previously dismissed on trivial grounds has pioneered the very same thing a few years ago, introducing the name and concept, and honed it to perfection by now.
Ah well, spinning is part of his job I suppose. But this sequence of postings is something special...
In your next post, you bash your competetitor by saying "it's almost as good as our product now", ignoring that many people obviously think the bigger feature set makes that other product already much more usable, despite a few trivial quibbles you have with it (Offering some information during the installation? A text selection cursor? Is that the best you can come up with?).
To make it complete, you then describe a new experimental feature not available in your normal builds, which might one day come to normal releases, as the best thing since sliced bread, and completely fail to mention that the competitor previously dismissed on trivial grounds has pioneered the very same thing a few years ago, introducing the name and concept, and honed it to perfection by now.
Ah well, spinning is part of his job I suppose. But this sequence of postings is something special...
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FireFox is a great browser, no doubt about that, but it is not as good as all the hype behind it. The marketing claims faster, more secure & more feature rich than everything else. I think the more people hype it up the more people will be disappointed when they try it.
I was very disappointed when I tried to get FireFox to deice the freezer.
By orinoco, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
By mxforce, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
Having faith in a good browser is fine but c'mon firefox guys why can't you admit that Opera has some awesome features?
I don't like firefox's style of implenting things like tabbed browsing, RSS feeds and the way they handle e-mail but I don't go flaming around and telling people that my browser kick's your browsers ass. I just give them ''the facts'' and tell them to use google.
Ofcourse I'm not speaking to all firefox users, just to the one's that see the world through firefox colored glases.
By DolfhinDC, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
By TreeGo, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
I don't think it is useful to blast Firefox or Firefox fans, especially if you are not already a regular on a blog/forum/whatever. Awareness of alternative browsers is growing and that is partially caused by the Firefox campaign. Don't fight Firefox, it is a nice little browser, and people who've switched have already shown a willingness to try something else. So tell people that Opera offers the same and much more. With the new release that is easier to use, this is a perfect time to try again to get family/coworkers/friends to take a look.
And if you have a website or a blog, add one of those new buttons for affiliates. You can get them with and without a superhero
By Rijk, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
By TreeGo, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50
Security was a hot topic at the time of the 1.0 release, so they had to use it to get people on their side. IE 'promised' to solve their security problems afterwards with Service Pack 2, but they still have a lot of problems... can't count the security hotfixes on windows update since then.
Differences for a 'normal' end-user between Opera and Firefox ? For me there are none, I just use it to browse the web, not for mail, just the surfing stuff. One big difference is that I don't get ads in Firefox.
From a developer perspective, Opera has better standards support, it has Tiny SVG (I miss animation in the trunk builds of FF), and it has several other nifty features. FireFox has the DOM-Inspector and a great Javascript debugger, so as a web-developer I mostly use FireFox.
I hope FireFox and Opera can continue improving standards support, and getting a bigger market share. Mozilla used an IE weakness to promote their browser to get market share from IE, not from Opera ...
May they both grow and get 50% each
By Yoeri, # 20. April 2005, 07:53:50