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While the Mac OS X build of Firefox is an absolutely dreadful piece of software that generates memory leaks larger than a space station, the *ni/ux and Windows builds of Firefox are very good, with little instances of crashing for me.
As a Macintosh user, I must say I do not like exactly Firefox, but I feel the need to refute some of these "myths."
"Firefox has lower System Requirements than Internet Explorer" While this myth is practically false, there is good reasoning behind this. When the writer of this did the comparison between Firefox and Explorer, he used IE 6. IE 6 is basically a slim browser for someone who only needs the internet for minor uses, while Firefox contains many different features from IE that make it a non-slim browser.
"Firefox's Memory Leak is a Bug" ...so that's Mozilla's plan of attack? Create a memory leak intended to slow down a user's computer and pass it off as a bug? Not a very good plan of attack to me, and it doesn't really look that well anywhoo, because it is false.
"Firefox passes the Acid2 Test" This is a true myth. Firefox 2 passes the Acid2 test.
"Firefox is not a religion." Um... the book of Mozilla is simply a joke.
"Firefox is the Fastest Web Browser" While Firefox isn't the fastest web browser, neither is Opera... which I've clocked to be even slower than Internet Explorer 6! The website explaining myths also needs to understand that the "fastest" browser would not behave such under different operating systems - if a browser named SoFast ran the fastest under Windows, it may behave poorly when optimized for a *nix system.
That's all I'll do for now, but that should be enough to prove that Firefox is not the worst browser to use for an operating system.
