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Mozilla Firefox: Web Development, Plugins and appearance.

  by dessus

As a web developer, I am developing XHTML 1.1 pages and moving towards other standards such as SVG. Firefox 3 now supports XHTML 1.1 compliant SVG which is cool.

The large plugin community for Firefox is definately an advantage, personally I like NoScript.

A downside to Firefox is that firefox really requires skins (which there are plenty of) so that it doesn't look ugly in comparison to IE on Vista (ie the themes are ... [More] reasonably matching). Purhaps a suggested theme depending on the OS that its installed on, during the install process. I imagine many users just use the default skin, not bothering to find a better one.

I would like to see a feature in Firefox like in MSN Messenger that trouble shoots internet connections. It has a list of 10 things including things like IP allocation/ Gateway / DNS etc that it checks showing the user where the problem could be. I have had to remotely help people over the phone with various IT problems and these sorts of features i think could be easy to implement. I found that we recommended the webbrowser to users that was the easiest for us to help them with.
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