[KLUG Members] Mozilla and Firefox

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:34:21AM -0500, Patrick McGovern was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#new lists the two
> > versions for Linux, GTK and GTK2+XFT. Get the latter. ;-)
>
> Is this good or bad news for Firefox?

It's annoying that their most prominently placed link for Firefox points
to the inferior if safer version. Rather than post the links to the
binaries themselves on the home page, Mozilla should link to their
download directories.

Of course, since Linux users are still most likely to bang on it until
it does work, and since they can't use IE natively, Mozilla is not
likely to lose many users. But still:

1. Firefox/GTK 1.2 was a 9+MB download over dial-up,
2. It increases general frustration.

It's a gotcha that doesn't need to exist.

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