Posted on 12/22/2004 8:32:38 AM PST by holymoly
Remember those days back in 1995, when Netscape Navigator was synonymous with internet? That was the time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer entered the market for a head-on collision with the Netscape Navigator. That was Browser War –I. Now the battle was reignited by the fire of FireFox, internet browser of Mozilla. This is the beginning of the Browser War –II. And it appears that this time Microsoft is losing it.
Internet Explorer is rapidly losing market share. OneStat.com a company in Amsterdam had conducted a worldwide survey in late November. The survey shows that Internet Explorer's share dropped to less than 89 percent, 5 percentage points less than in May. FireFox now has almost 5 percent of the market, and it is growing.
Net surfers are opting for FireFox to Internet Explorer due to security concerns. FireFox offers much more security from worms and viruses than IE. FireFox 1.0 was released for free on the web on Nov. 9. Within just one month 10 million copies of the browser were downloaded. It is an open source software which improves with time as bug-reporter and bug-fixer community grows.
Mozilla’s President Mitchell Baker is optimistic that FireFox will grab 10 percent market share and Mozilla's many technology parts will become an increasingly important application development platform.
She says that “the product is so nice that people love it when they try it. It is innovative and has new features, it makes the Web a more enjoyable experience, it makes people more comfortable, and it's fast. It's a set of things you would want in a browser if you sat down and really thought about it.” She added that people rarely realize that the quality your web experience is determined to a large extent by the kind of browser you use. Firefox gives them that wonderful browsing enjoyment.
Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of product management for Windows on the other hand feels that people will stick with IE when they consider all the things that made them to opt for IE in the first place. He said that Microsoft is developing a new version of browser but one will have to wait till 2006. Schare said that Microsoft goes to people and gets there feedback on what they want and what they don’t want in a product. It is not so easy to satisfy absolutely everyone.
To us however somehow the diminishing share of IE from the market says something else. It says that nowadays costumers have a new way of giving a feedback. They just switch to someone else.
Amen breddah!
Go here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
And check out the first sticky. It has some hints that cover a shortcut, or you can just do the standard dropdown file, open new tab.
BTW, in firefox you can go to bookmarks and then select a bookmark folder. Then tab to the bottom choice in the folder (open in tabs). When you do this, it opens every entry in the folder in tabs.
For me at work this is incredible. I can now setup folders specifically for groups of sites I know I want to bounce around in.
I will now actually use bookmarks and folders for more than just remembering sites.
dang...that's right.
I could make the leap from flying in daddy's lap as a kid (all Beech ..all the time) to the Firefox in short order.
Just keep think Kournikova and spiceba!
I just downloaded FireFox 20 minutes ago and wondered about the 'Tab' feature myself. Here's what I found: 1) File>New Tab (you will see the untitled tab in the tab bar) 2) drag and drop any link into the tab and you will see how it works. My first two are Drudge and of course FreeRepublic. Cool!!!
Watched FireFox last night .... of course for browsing I use slim Browser. Light fast and EASY. And secure as hell.
Mine has it, and I'm not even using the current version. (I'm on 0.9.3 for unspecified reasons.) Note that it doesn't work for me because I don't have a default mailer defined on my Linux system... because I don't use this system to send email.
Firefox is something of a paradigm shift (ick) for lots of Windows users because it generally does one thing, and does it VERY well: render web pages. It does not send email (that's its cousin, Thunderbird). It does not do spreadsheets or documents (that's the guy down the street, Open Office). Because of that fact, that it is not an email program, you're likely running into a "limitation". But trust me: it's the *right* way to do things.
3) Double-click on the tab bar to open a new blank tab. :-)
Under file, click on "send link"
I know about Opera's tabs, but I still like Firefox better.
Insead of clicking on a tab or a bookmark, rightclick it, then select "open in new tab."
Mmmmmm.... Enjoyment.
Thanks to all. It works great!
I like Firefox, as well. But I don't know that it's as flexible as IE. And I don't know that it is any less vulnerable. As it catches on, the thieves out there will attempt to break into it. But once you get a few 'toolbars' inadvertently installed on IE, BHOs, and a few other things, even after you pull them out it does seem to break down and become unstable, as if the libraries have been corrupted (or maybe some undocumented registry junk). And you don't want to have to reinstall the whole, everytime. But I still prefer IE over Firefox. We'll see if that remains true in a few months.
You might try Google searching Firefox blogs to see if it's been addressed.
That's why I'll never put that piece of crap on my computer. Always keep in mind that anyone, including Europeans and Chinese, can mess with Firefox' open source code and put all kinds of spyware into it. I'd rather stick with IE,
LOL! IE has always been given away for free.
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