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With more than 11% of the market hopefully we will start to see some sites which were traditionally *ie only* start to become more complient to other browsers
1 posted on 05/16/2006 2:20:34 PM PDT by N3WBI3
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2 posted on 05/16/2006 2:21:22 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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3 posted on 05/16/2006 2:22:57 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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I have become a Firefox convert. I need to find a good ad blocker (The once-free AdShield is pure sweetness on IE) for it to rate "perfect". :-)

Tried Opera for a while, but it's so buggy it made IE look good!

5 posted on 05/16/2006 2:25:21 PM PDT by TChris ("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
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The Firefox and Safari Web browsers are gradually becoming more popular, while Internet Explorer (IE) may be starting to lose some of its lead, according to experts.

Makes sense. Microsoft Internet Exploder isn't a browser...it's a 38-megabyte virus.

8 posted on 05/16/2006 2:29:24 PM PDT by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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while IE continues to dominate Web browser use with 85.17 percent of total global usage in May, the browser has fallen in popularity by 0.65 percent since January

LOL

11 posted on 05/16/2006 3:05:55 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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Firefox is a nice browser, especially with the various extensions.

However, it becomes a memory hog. Even sitting idle, it can lock a good chuck of RAM. I've had it hoard nearly 500 meg of RAM.

Firefox should find a way to fix that. It seems to be a problem that goes back several versions.
12 posted on 05/16/2006 3:08:02 PM PDT by TomGuy
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I switched all of the workstations in my network to gecko based browsers because of continuing IE security issues (there's a backlog of over 20 unresolved security holes in IE). Once my users had it, they couldn't live without tabbed browsing, and a spyware-free google search box built right into the browser.

Firefox is Exhibit A in why competition is a good thing for Microsoft. After it took off, Redmond finally got off of its ass and starting working on a new version of IE. IE 6 code was untouched by human hands for months at a time.
13 posted on 05/16/2006 4:00:04 PM PDT by DesScorp
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I switched completely to Firefox because in order to make IE secure enough for my taste I had to set the settings so restricted that half of all pages didn't work right.


19 posted on 05/17/2006 4:29:27 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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I am a recent Firefox convert. For years I used Netscape, but as they merged with AOL I got more and more fed up with all the overhead in their browsers. I resisted changing to Firefox for a long time because of compatibility issues. I finally had enough of IE's stupidity though. I began to see how clunky the interface was and as a programmer, I got sick of the debugging tools for javascript.

At work, I now use Firefox for everything I can (there are still things at work that are IE only). At home, I still use IE, but I'm sure that will change soon!

20 posted on 05/17/2006 8:22:00 AM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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