Firefox and the Myths Website

I just read this post about Firefox Myths

It reminded me of the story...

One day a Physicist, Statistician and a Mathematician are roaming around the countryside when they notice a black sheep.

The Statistician immediately says "All the sheep in this coutry are black", taken aback by this hasty conclusion the Physicist tries to correct him. He says "My man, don't you mean some of the sheep in the country are probably black?"

The Mathematician looks contemptuously at both of them and says "All we can really say is that one sheep in this country is black on one side of its body!"

So the approach that we use to judge anything seems to be either that of the Statistician (FF is God's creation, all those who condemn it be doomed) or the Mathematician (Put forward completely true but utterly useless facts about the browser, just to make one's point).

When really IMHO 90% are absolutely true, but the site misses the main issue. No one is claiming that FF is a perfect browser, it's just the best one around. Most of the criteria included in the site are frivolous and the ones that are not are twisted to sound inconclusive.

So our approach should really be that of the Physicist. Concentrate on what is really neccessary in a browser, look at what we have rather than what we don't. What we have is a reasonably fast, very secure browser that is more standards compliant than any other commercial browser.