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Firefox 3 - triumph or disaster? 01:15am on 20 Jun 2008 It seems like people are becoming very partisan and emotional about their browser choice which is really a bit silly. FF is a great browser that plays well with standards and as a designer and developer this is the most important factor.

I'm a Safari guy (sometimes Camino). On mobile I think mobile Safari blows everything else out of the water, but both Opera and Nokia's implementation of Webkit both deserve honourable mention for bringing a pretty good browsing experience, standards support, and support for more modern features such as decent javascipt, AJAX and CSS support to regular mobiles.

And it's largely thanks to FF (and Safari and Opera) that Microsoft are now taking standards support more seriously. IE7 was an improvement, and I hope IE8's support for CSS 2.1 and CSS3 will move the whole game forward again. Even Mozilla's employees and leaders acknowledge that, so I would expect the fanboys to do the same.

A note about iPhone coverage, it wouldn't matter if the iPhone didn't break 2-3 percent of the mobile market (though it will shatter that in the long run), what it's done for mobile browsing and the competition it has triggered is phenomenal and in a few years you should be thanking Apple for finally kick-starting the mobile web proper. Though the FF news is great, it really is a relatively small iteration of a good product. The iPhone is a quantum leap in it's segment and deserves the coverage it's received, regardless of whether it is the right device for you.

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