FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share

Earthtimes.org ^ | 2004-12-22 | Giri. A

[holymoly]

Mozilla.org

An extended explanation on why Internet Explorer is insecure

[kevkrom]

Of course, I've been using Opera for a while, so I see little need to switch over to Firefox.

[ShadowAce]

Another Firefox article

[Travis McGee]

So, can you recommend this switch to us inertia-bound non-tech-savvy IE users?

[China Clipper]

Moxilla? Whats the big deal? I have tried it on my Windows XP based computer and found it riff with boo boos, and general hassels. I am not impressed.

More media hype? You decide...

[Calpernia]

If Mozilla ever makes POSTDATA scripting compatible to Firefox....I.E. is toast.

[SmithL]

I have Netscape, Opera, IE, and Firefox on my computer. My Web Site looks better in IE, but I use Firefox to do my browsing. I love the tabs.

[Calpernia]

I still have to flip flop between I.E. and Firefox. I stay in firefox mainly now; but if I'm on a site that uses a postdata submit script, I have to launch I.E.

[sd-joe]

Yes. Download Firefox and try it. It is free and it is easy. You can leave IE on your computer as a backup, and after a little while, you will almost never use it.

[stm]

I switched a few days ago. It's twice as fast as MSIE and it eliminates pop-ups entirely. I have not found any spyware either since I started using it

[holymoly]

Of course, I've been using Opera for a while, so I see little need to switch over to Firefox.

Nor do I. I currently run a version of Opera, which I use for those rare pages which won't work with Mozilla.

[RobRoy]

I've switched all of my home computers to firefox and am downloading it right now for my work computer.

The only negative is the lousy formatting of my mail responses in Hotmail. But what do you expect from an MS Centric mail system. It is a small price to pay.

[kevkrom]

I still have to use MSIE to access the company intranet (over VPN) and the occasional balky website, but that's the total extent I'll use it.

[mylife]

Firefox Rocks!

[Old_Mil]

>So, can you recommend this switch to us inertia-bound
>non-tech-savvy IE users?

Absolutely. I've been using Mozilla Firefox for some time on my Windows XP machine and it's a great browser.

I'd recommend the following for any Windows machine:

- Install and keep Norton Antivirus updated
- Clean and immunize your system with Spybot
- Switch from IE to Mozilla's Firefox

[RobRoy]

My experience was the opposite. And I have friends that work at microsoft. There was this thread yesterday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

which gives a bunch of links to speed up firefox for broad band users. It works great!

BTW, my wife instantly noticed the popups went away when we switched, and we both love the tabs.

[KarlInOhio]

feels that people will stick with IE when they consider all the things that made them to opt for IE in the first place.

So Microsoft is going to get even more authors of web sites to make their pages require Explorer?

[wardaddy]

I'll split a Firefox with ya Matt, when you figure out how to operate it well enough!

[shadowman99]

Moxilla? Whats the big deal? I have tried it on my Windows XP based computer and found it riff with boo boos, and general hassels. I am not impressed.

More media hype? You decide...

???? What is MoXilla???

I decided you haven't tried the Firebird browser at all. Most people have a good experience with Firebird. Or perhaps your machine has a ton of Spyware and crap that keeps anything from working as it should.

[Mr. K]

I can just see the stockholder faces now! We took over a percent of a Microsoft free internet explorer with our free browser... how much did we make?