英文wikipedia上firefox的条目做的相当出色,对其渊源,人物,技术,现状,长处,以至命名,标志,市场,Spread Firefox活动的情况总结的很到位 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox。 更者其对火狐浏览器的批评的总结,颇有百科全书式的大家风范。
对于火狐一味吹捧式的赞扬,大家很快就会厌倦, 建设性的批评也许更有意义。
Criticisms
Many argue that frequently requested, yet minor, features have not been implemented. For example, the ability to resize the search bar has been a frequently requested feature but has been frequently turned down. Some of these requests have only been solved when someone creates an extension for it. However, it is commonly argued that the marginal performance degradation when installing an extension is not worth the marginal benefits of having that feature available. Therefore, they argue, that feature should have been included into Firefox by default to avoid the performance hit.[33]....
大致总结如下
- 许多功能还没有实现,比如搜索框大小不能调节
- 有人认为不少功能应该由浏览器而不是扩展来实现,否则会降低效率
- 前进后退键载入页面缓慢
- 出错页问题,右键点击图片 - 显示图片问题,文字游标问题
- 不支持ActiveX使firefox更加安全,但是会减少在企业Intranet中应用的机会
- Opera 用户批评firefox+扩展的效率和可靠性不如功能全部内建的浏览器。
- mozilla 用户批评firefox对新手的友好性有短处,许多高级设置只能手工编辑。
- firefox+ 雷鸟邮件客户比mozilla套件耗内存
http://kalsey.com/2004/09/why_i_dont_recommend_firefox/ 为什么我不推荐firefox
写的有意思,不过不是针对firefox的批评,而是对其市场营销的批评 : 一般用户根本不知道什么是浏览器!
又,致力于为firefox四处放火的bloggers注意了 ,这个东东 http://hpstudios.homeip.net/Firebar.html (http://hpstudios.homeip.net/firebar-200411292130.zip) 可以给所有使用IE的用户一个有趣的警告,sample : http://hpstudios.homeip.net/firebar.php
另一版本http://blog.cs.cityu.edu.hk/users/50307104/ie/browse-happy-infobar.xhtml