FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share

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

[Mister Baredog]

Read it and you'll understand why Mozilla, Firefox & Opera will never be as vulnerable as MSIE.

I read it, I see, guess it's time to sell my Microsoft huh?

[broadsword]

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...

OK. I have decided that, since you don't even know how to spell it, you have probably never tried it and your post is full of $hit.

[Calpernia]

>>>>What would IE use for a mascot?

[Clara Lou]

Everything they do has only one goal: money.
We agree on this one thing. By the way, did you ever find out how much they're charging for IE?

[Clara Lou]

Go here: WinPlanet Please note that it's their download site for IE. Also note that IE is classified as "freeware."

I rest my case and bid you farewell.

[JoJo Gunn]

Try this:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t1648.html

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Firefox Rocks!

And IE sux rocks.

[JoJo Gunn]

Yet another Redmond paid shill joins the Freep to troll.

IE is free, ain't that right? IE5.5 came with Winduhs ME, and I never paid for IE6. In fact, they force it on you when you buy certain software. HP blessed me with an iE6 disc with my scanner. MS themselves sent me an unsolicited "butterfly" CD in the mail, with IE6 on it. If I want to use MSN I also have to use that free iE6 upgrade, how about that?

There's no escaping your precious Master's code.

MS is so "superior" in how they force you into OS upgrades under the guise of security. And next week MS will be issuing other patches to patch the patches that were patched....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

How do you add tabs to the toolbar?

Get an extension called "Tabbrowser Extensions" and another called "Tabbrowser Preferences".

Get them here.

Between the two of them, there isn't a tab option left that you can't configure.

[Windcatcher]

Ctrl-T (or just click the button).

Best. Feature. Ever.

[Windcatcher]

"Of course, when you're unemployed, you will have lots of time to work on free software. But who will pay your bills?"

Good Lord, talk about hypocrisy. Microsoft uses their monopolistic position to bundle IE, therefore making certain that no one -- but no one -- can make any money by writing and selling a browser. Then, once IE is everywhere because everyone needs Windows, they bundle WMP and start *licensing codecs* that tie into both, thus making more money. Apparently what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander: Microsoft can dump a product to corner a market, but no one else can take market share from them once they've already driven everyone else out.

Hear this loud and clear: I might be a loyal American, and even a Conservative, but in this regard, the good people at Microsoft can go s***w themselves (and, for that matter, stick their hypocrisy in the orifice of their choice). Capitalistic economies require robust competition, which is woefully lacking here.

It's past time to break Microsoft's OS group off into a separate corporate entity. Period, end of story.

[JoJo Gunn]

"Blocking advertisments means you are taking a website's content without paying for it. That's stealing! We don't want to end up becoming a socialist country, do we?"

Did you not know that those danged pinkos at MS have issued a popup blocker in IE6 SP2?

A few ads are tolerated, but who gives anyone permission to pop up unsolicited windows on my machine without my permission?

By your analogy, should I have been imprisoned as a child for going to the bathroom when a commercial came on TV?

Why don't I let just anyone in my house to flip light switches or control any other aspect of my existence, because I fear being branded unAmerican otherwise?

By the way, I'm not shelling out money for another OS just to get their precious and perhaps second rate popup blocker. I'll not goose step. I'll not owe my soul to the Company Store. If you think I should, then you're more a dangerous Leftist pinko in your thought processes than a Mozilla user would ever dare be.

[grwcfl537]

You could do worse than to start using linux. I am an old unix junkie and started using SuSE at about rel 6.1 (legally licensed). My HP came bundled with Xpensive and it occupies a small partition and an (unused) entry in Grub. I licensed Moneydance (about $25.00) and have no need for any M$ product or Quicken.

OpenOffice.org, tex/latex, any number of very robust spreadsheets, media players, robust SQL databases, compilers for virtually any language, and one of the best features is kshowmail, which allows me access to mail server on the ISP to delete suspect mail (needed because wifey still uses w2k.

[general_re]

By your analogy, should I have been imprisoned as a child for going to the bathroom when a commercial came on TV?

Very serious crime, and one of which I am also guilty. Think I should turn myself in now, or wait until they come drag me away?

[JoJo Gunn]

I was using Yahoo to screen my POP mail, very handy at seeing how many megs I might face downloading at a given time, but the ISP has added a spam firewall (Barracuda) and apparently it interferes. Can't do it anymore. (I don't know what a LAST command is).

I'm curious about Linux, especially Knoppix. I have a burner, but am on a dialup, though.

I'm going to run ME until it's threadbare and reeks of death before I'll go with Gate's "intellectual property" crap begun with XP. If I'm good enough to give him my hard earned cash, the product is mine. The record stores and Hollyweird can do fine without this old "commie thief" as well.

[UltraKonservativen]

I am a complete neanderthal when it comes to this but I made the switch to Firefox. It was easy and it is faster and better than IE.
Grunt.

[JoJo Gunn]

Jim Robinson is in on this too, ya know. He never once strongarmed me into giving a nickel for being a Freeper.

For being on a free site, and using free speech, and free choice, to sing either the praises of Mozilla or MS, we should all hang our heads in shame and go into hiding.

[NZerFromHK]

Thanks for saying what I wanted to say, and expressing in better words than mine! Giving away your work voluntarily is not communism - forcing MS to give it away is. If Bill Gates only wants the software developed on his Windows OS platform to be commercial profit-making ones, he could have made it so.

But he dien't. Perhaps this should tell us something.

[general_re]

LOL. We suck ;)

[N3WBI3]

Its also here for free... This is IE6 for windows..