Cool Firefox plugins...

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Originally Posted by WizBang

I've not dug in deep on the security issues, but do you happen to know what handles the Javascript and plugins in msie?

'What' as in... ?

AFAIR, Sun has an exe running that Javascripts in the browser delegate their tasks to... But, honestly, I have not worked too much in Java and don't know much...

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Originally Posted by WizBang

Are there really any good sites worth visiting which can't be viewed in FF?

Oh, actually a lot of Microsoft websites (ASP) were not Firefox compatible... Till recently (before MSDN got renovated) many MSDN pages and subscriber downloads did not work well with Firefox.

I think this problem stemmed not only from poor development effort (sure there are many not-so-good web developers out there) but also from the fact that FF has gained in popularity in the last few years, and legacy monstrous web-systems did not (or probably could not) change quickly to suit the new rendering technology.

Having said that, it is of course not impossible that Firefox also shipped with a set of bugs that caused a lot of web-developers one sleepless night too many. :D