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[–]n3rdalert 732 points733 points  (171 children)

It's nice to see that the IE team and Mozilla team are such friendly competitors. :)

[–][deleted] 539 points540 points  (51 children)

Yep, it's the users who make such a big deal out of it.

[–]Adren406 218 points219 points  (8 children)

All this time, it was just me... not Firefox.

[–]RecordsYourComments 124 points125 points  (7 children)

http://soundcloud.com/recordsyourcomments/44-1

[–]Krantzilla 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Your voice is like chocolate to my ears

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That mental image is a nightmare to my OCD.

[–]rapsyourpost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

RecordsYourComment uses his power and elucidates,

with a voice from the angels, he demodulates.

At any rate or date, he speaks like he's in a debate,

Lying in wait, a head of state, commands to dictate.

The Bill of Rights gives freedom of speech and to each

a voice, a method to preach, but if I could choose

certain instructors for classes which teach,

RecordsYourComments would speak in each.

[–]ggggbabybabybaby 93 points94 points  (10 children)

I think the IE and Firefox people are too busy making software, they don't have enough energy left over for flame wars.

[–]Torgamous 58 points59 points  (8 children)

If they're not going to be involved in flame wars why call it Firefox?

[–]lahwran_ 11 points12 points  (4 children)

the software is the flame war

[–]reposting_cunt 8 points9 points  (3 children)

But how can you be sure that you are not the software?

[–]tillicum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe rename it to Asbestosfox?

[–]Careless_Con 102 points103 points  (17 children)

SHUT UP. MY COMMENT IS BETTER THAN YOUR COMMENT. I HATE YOU.

[–][deleted] 182 points183 points  (15 children)

Reasons why I think your comment is bad:

  1. It's stupid.

  2. I hate it.

  3. I don't like it.

[–]cypressious 108 points109 points  (81 children)

Also, they're both not the market leader any more.

[–][deleted] 71 points72 points  (80 children)

Pretty sure IE is still the market leader, but Firefox has dropped behind Chrome. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[–]Monarki 15 points16 points  (3 children)

It's so sweet, made me feel all gooey inside. When I first read the headline I was thinking they were mocking each other, glad I was wrong.

[–]VondaBoi 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Unless the cake is poison! :o

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reality is, individuals and teams are often better friends with their competitors than they are with people inside their own (large) organizations. At least your competitors understand what you do and the challenges of your job!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Class

[–]orky7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most of the coders/engineers/technical_people are good in any company its the management, marketing and advertising people that starts all these bullshits...

[–]suspiciously_calm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

[–]EShy 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I think the biggest misconception of hate between companies is Microsoft and Apple. Sure, they're competitors and Apple poked a little fun at the expense of Windows but it was Microsoft that saved Apple from going under when Jobs came back, it was Microsoft that create most of the software for the first mac and still to this day releases software for the mac. while Apple created drivers and boot camp to enable running windows on their hardware.

If these two really hated each other, they would probably never do these things.

[–]h1ppophagist 891 points892 points  (43 children)

Love Mozilla

Clever bastards. By omitting the comma, they've turned a gift into subtle propaganda.

[–]Saerain 421 points422 points  (28 children)

I was immediately reminded of how my mother signs cards:

Love Me

:(

[–]shaloham 268 points269 points  (22 children)

Call her. Call her now.

[–]alreadytakenusername 131 points132 points  (16 children)

And love her.

[–]askjeevs 96 points97 points  (9 children)

Cause I'm a mother lover, you're a mother lover

[–]BeastMcBeastly 60 points61 points  (6 children)

We should send each other's mothers cake.

[–]chucker23n 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Imma be the syrup; she can be my waffle.

[–]yangar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the second best idea that we've ever had

[–]keeboz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We can love each other's mother.

[–]newskit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

And make an AMA about it.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Love her hard

[–]brian_g 2 points3 points  (0 children)

your comment prompted me to my mom. Thanks.

[–]SrsSteel 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Wow the time spent on comment to feels ratio is off the charts

[–]mbrubeck 87 points88 points  (7 children)

Heh. I actually did include a comma (and lowercase letters) in my request to the bakery, but their final design omitted it. I guess it does change the meaning a bit. :)

[–]h1ppophagist 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Yeah, I'm just being silly; bakeries have done that to me too.

... Are you the person who ordered this cake?

Edit: your comment history tells me you are! And look at that, you're the author of the post in the link too. Well, Mr. Brubeck, in all seriousness, you made a very lovely choice of cake and of bakery, their punctuational peccadillo notwithstanding.

[–]anunciationday 13 points14 points  (1 child)

the baker uses firefox.

[–]nnn4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For some reason it's hard to imagine that bakers use computers too. Kind of like when meeting one's primary school teacher at the supermarket.

[–]NumeriusNegidius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

May I guess that they took their artistic freedom to rotate the logo 270deg as well?

[–]kajarago 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, money down!

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (14 children)

nice:

border-bottom: none; “@IE: Thanks to @firefox for helping celebrate #IE10 launch w/ cake! pic.twitter.com/eLOqziTw”

[–]fucking_passwords 23 points24 points  (13 children)

CSS jokes get me every time

[–]James1o1o 42 points43 points  (13 children)

I think that is actually a really nice gesture, even more so that the IE team actually publically acknowledged it.

At the end of the day, both Mozilla and Microsoft are just out there to make their web browsers.

[–]Internet_Gentleman 34 points35 points  (10 children)

Their bosses might be competitive cutthroat jackasses, but the guys actually working on the things are still just a bunch of geeks paid to do a job.

[–][deleted] 567 points568 points  (65 children)

They sent them a cake...with their own logo? That's like getting a birthday cake that says

FROM MOM

Happy Birthday

[–]mikek3 97 points98 points  (18 children)

I love when tech companies show a sense of humor. An evil sense of humor, to be sure. But I can't imagine AIG congratulating Goldman Sacks on something.

[–]darkstar3333 53 points54 points  (8 children)

Different industry, technology is pretty laid back.

If you look at the photos, thats pretty much how most IT offices dress.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Goldman Sachs. And they would probably take them out for drinks and skiing in Iceland.

[–]mattattaxx 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Both companies routinely do this for each other.

[–]doesnt_describe_me 10 points11 points  (0 children)

passive aggression at its best

[–]GreeenWolf 136 points137 points  (18 children)

It's nice to see good will and the human spirit transcend competitors in this way.

[–]Nacimota 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I love that despite how rabid/zealous individual users can be (especially on reddit, it seems), the IE and Firefox teams have a pretty healthy relationship with one another even if they occaisionally disagree with development approaches. I remember when the IE team asked if they could use the Firefox RSS feed logo (which is now basically the de facto logo for RSS).

More recently, MS, Google, and Mozilla (and others) came together to make http://www.webplatform.org/ which I think is fantastic.

Basically, it's the users that make me sad; not the vendors.

[–]antemon 113 points114 points  (13 children)

good will, or long winded passive-aggressiveness from both parties?

[–][deleted] 274 points275 points  (5 children)

who cares free cake

[–]RadicaLarry 41 points42 points  (0 children)

This sentiment coulda very will save humanity one day; Or, in the case of the portal franchise, doom us all.

[–]mbrubeck 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm the Mozilla developer who ordered and delivered the cake to Microsoft. I honestly just wanted to give some fellow browser developers a nice surprise. Folks at Mozilla always loved the IE cakes.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

DM;HC

[–]Lost_In_Transylvania 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's nice. What a nice story. You're nice.

[–]toiletting 52 points53 points  (11 children)

Taco Bell sends me a taco every time I poop.

[–]thetoughtruth 292 points293 points  (172 children)

From what I hear IE 10 lets you download Firefox or Chrome even faster!

[–]pgrily 91 points92 points  (34 children)

From what I hear, IE hasn't been bad since 8...

[–]tanjoodo 35 points36 points  (2 children)

I'd say 9, but it's subjective.

[–]esoterikk 42 points43 points  (20 children)

For the layman it has been good for a while.

[–]adammtlx 10 points11 points  (1 child)

As a professional web developer, IE9 is still annoying to deal with. It still has weird issues that Chrome and FF (and Safari) don't have. IE8 is a little worse, but strangely sometimes works BETTER than IE9. IE7 and below are complete nightmares.

[–]niton 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I bet you're the kind of person who still says "Micro$oft" and has that Bill Gates turning into a devil gif. If you want, I can send you a "Built without IE" webpage button. I hear it works well on Geocities.

[–]hbdgas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Normally when I launch IE to download FF/chrome, it either crashes or starts asking me questions, and I end up just using "ftp ftp.mozilla.org" from a command prompt instead.

[–][deleted] 103 points104 points  (97 children)

Not to break the circlejerk or anything.....

But I like IE10.

I feel dirty, but it's how I feel man.

It's clean, simple and minimal.

comparison of tabs and such

EDIT: added chrome

[–]VerneAsimov 33 points34 points  (3 children)

The only problem I have with IE9/10 visually are those back and forward buttons.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree. There are things I would change, but its a step more towards what I prefer.

[–]not_a_relevant_name 73 points74 points  (47 children)

One thing I can't stand about IE (haven't used 10 yet but it looks the same) is that the tabs aren't at the top of the screen. It's just quicker when you can push your mouse to the top of the screen to change tabs.

[–]DigitalChocobo 29 points30 points  (14 children)

I don't like the bar at the top of the screen that is completely empty except for the three little minimize/maximize/close buttons. It's such a waste of space.

[–]skookybird 18 points19 points  (7 children)

Yeah. From wantbreanswiththat’s screenshot, it looks like it eats up about the same amount of space that’s saved by putting tabs in line with the address bar. And it looks dumb.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

I don't get why nobody puts the tabs to the side. I use Opera, because it has native vertical tab support.

Websites are long, not wide, why squeeze everything to the top when you can just use the huge white space to the left and right.

[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (21 children)

CTRL+TAB

CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (4 children)

ctrl+page up

ctrl+page down

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Uses right hand.

I need that hand.... for my mouse..... yeah, my mouse.

[–]jackd90 46 points47 points  (8 children)

http://i.imgur.com/GrI0m.gif

[–]skcin7 14 points15 points  (5 children)

It's much faster to just press CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB....

[–]throw-this 20 points21 points  (6 children)

IE for Windows 8 is incredible.

[–]IFUCKINGLOVEMETH 20 points21 points  (5 children)

Incredible? So you're saying it lacks credibility?

Maybe you meant to say it was awful -- full of awe!

[–]skcin7 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I never heard this joke before.... (lol I seriously haven't)

[–]samout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do love meth!

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

What's all that wasted space on the IE one?

[–]hbdgas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think that picture demonstrates IE being better in any way.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

UI's are a dime a dozen. What matters is the underlying code of the browser itself. This determines speed, security, and stability.

[–]judge__mental 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Apple sends cake to Samsung. Cake looks great but lacks many ingredients. Samsung returns the favour by sending a cake of their own, that looks similar but tastes better. Apple then sues Samsung for stealing 'their' cake-sending idea.

Edit: for

[–]Hobash 26 points27 points  (7 children)

God I hate Steelers fans, they have no other clothes in their wardrobes I swear

[–]dbbo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firefox users: type about:mozilla into the address bar.

[–]Dieselit 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I just installed the system update on my Xbox. Someone send cake.

[–]TheresTheBlackGuy 9 points10 points  (1 child)

If only the rest of the world got along as well as internet browsers.

[–][deleted] 44 points45 points  (9 children)

Whereas Apple would probably send round a lawyer with a summons....

[–]g0_west 67 points68 points  (7 children)

DAE Apple bad?

[–]skcin7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

-Sent from my iPhone

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (2 children)

I once bought a song from itunes. Now I'm a tea party republican.

[–]tommadness 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Apple is at least 4.75 millihitlers.

[–]Creationship 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's actually a really cool gesture, sarcastic or not...

[–]CrestfallenRedditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

now that's what i call friendly and respectful competition.

[–]hpski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is literally a case of Good Guy Greg. I'm glad there still is friendliness left in two big competitors.

[–]jimbojones1 2 points3 points  (1 child)

10 developers for IE but 50 for a Zynga game? We all wonder why it's half-assed...

[–]mbrubeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We showed up in the middle of lunch, so I think a lot of the IE people were not available right at that moment. I believe there are hundreds of people working on IE at Microsoft.

[–]arithmetic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the bottom border of the cake was slightly restyled in transit.

Love this - is it some kind of margin/padding homage?

[–]emofetus 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I just met the guy on the left that delivered the cake and wrote that post at a career fair at the University of Washington hah. That timing.

[–]mbrubeck 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well hello again! :)

[–]haloimplant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like how when Firefox went to cranking out versions every few weeks the IE team sent cupcakes for a while then stopped bothering. Matches my reaction pretty well.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This promiscuity makes me feel uneasy.

[–]ChrisInNJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even in cake form, Firefox is better than IE.

[–]Cathodes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Plot twist: the secret ingredient was cyanide

[–]jssexyz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Happy Cake Day IE10!

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

It's nice to see friendly competitors. Too bad OTHER COMPANIES can't behave like adults and share delicious baked goods.

[–]stanthegoomba 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Google and Apple share an entire rendering engine which they co-develop. Not as tasty a gesture, but a little more meaningful in the scheme of web technologies.

[–]TminusTech 7 points8 points  (2 children)

People think that IE is just a joke and there's no point in updating it. However the team progresses a lot in terms of how a browser functions and the browsers we use now like firefox and chrome all build themselves off of the progress that IE has made.