FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share

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

[N3WBI3]

Here ya go, I have an old copy of windows 98, I can install it with ie4. I can then trip out IE (it can be done) and restart my box. Right now IE is not a part of the OS, but I can now go an download ie 6 and install it. It is free, just because windows packages it does not mean it can also not be obtained for free..

[JoJo Gunn]

I appreciate the huzzahs.

I’m as free market as they come, but I don’t believe that the Complaint Department should be done away with. Far too many people have accepted too much from bad business practices.

“If we already got your money, press 1 now. If you really and truly think we give a damn about your problems, press 2 ”.

[Poser]

If you plan to view PDF files, download Adobe Acrobat 7.0. Earlier versions don't work well with Firefox. I tried a couple of cluges, but they didn't work right.

[Radix]

"Firefox = Open Source = Communism

Giving away things for free is not the American way. It kills jobs and hurts the economy. 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?"

That has to simply be the most moronic post of the year.

 

[JoJo Gunn]

It only works with 2000 and XP. 9x users will be stuck with the 6 series, it appears.

[NZerFromHK]

I just don't understand them - supporting free market does not mean you will have to automatically support every company, whether it be American Airlines, Time Warner, Microsoft, Kirby's, Fonterra, BMW, Alstom.

[kralcmot]

respectfully disagree. I run XP pro and XP home on sony laptops and have no problems with Mozilla. Your bugs might be from some other source or incompatability.

[Radix]

"This a late entry--and solid contender--for most idiotic post of the year."

You beat me by almost 6 hours.

[Capitalism2003]

I only use IE for Windows updates...and that is only because Microsoft forces me too.

Other than that, Firefox all the way.

[Travis McGee]

Danke Grunt!

[Radix]

"What would IE use for a mascot?"

[kralcmot]

set the homepage to News.Google.com and you get the world each time you log on

[grwcfl537]

JoJo,
Knoppix is a good choice for starts. It recognizes most hardware with no problems, and there is a cheatcodes file to get over the humps. Believe Klaus Knopper still runs a web site with a fairly comprehensive forum. Before I went broadband, I started a download at bedtime and if there were no glitches, completed in the AM. If your are interested, the Linux documentation project www.tldp.org has a long list of HOWTOs and other documentation.

Mel

[Incorrigible]

Soon only Communists will be able to afford programming open source.

[Incorrigible]

Get your FREE tabbed browser add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer right here:

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

[JoJo Gunn]

I dunno, some people have an irrational fear that the bottom is going to drop out from under them if we all go to open source. Granted, some of them are paid shills, some own MS stock, some like to hear themselves talk, some just like to argue.

Okay, so I’m using Mozilla as my primary browser. Big deal. I still see some ads. My computer is still plugged into the wall, and the bill will come due at the end of the month from both the power company and the ISP, which means open source won’t starve out the techs and pole climbers and secretaries and postal workers, nor the bankers or grocers or Wal-Mart employees or gas station owners or broadcasters or butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who feed off of them, etc.

I’m using open source products on an HP machine via a Microsoft OS. I’m writing this offline at the moment on an MS word processor. Seems a fair balance to me.

Certainly some of the Mozilla coders have a deep hatred, or distrust, towards MS, and it’s why they do what they do. But there are others who do it for the hobby, for the fun of working on a large project. Where is creativity stifled?

I think of a woman I used to be with, who was very good at arts and crafts, how she made things and gave them to her friends for the love of doing it, and she paid good money to the craft stores in the process.

Communism, my rusty behind….

[JoJo Gunn]

Have mercy. It's now at 700 megs, a maxed out CD for sure. It'd take forever to download and I'd bet my last money it'd have errors.

http://www.knoppix.net/

[FreedomPoster]

Yep, wholeheartedly. It works almost identically, and is substantially more secure. And you still leave IE in place, in case you need it for some oddball site.

If you are on a high-speed connections, there are a couple of easy tweaks that substantially speed Firefox. Go here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

[pacelvi]

I have some general comments

1. Windows XP SP2 comes with a pop up blocker. I haven't gotten IE pop ups since I installed SP2 RC1 early this year.

2. If you run XP, install SP2 for that and 1000 other reasons

2a, If you run Windows but not XP. Get XP SP2 or unplug / physically protect / your machine from the internet.

3. The IE browser has no there there. MS has HTML rendering component that is a service of Windows (thus the so-called integration) that they combine with other user interface elements and packaged them all together into somethign called IE.

Anyone right now can take the IE HTML renderer AxSHDocVw.DLL and using any COM or .Net development technology can make their own tabbed browser. AOL uses the MS HTML renderer to construct its built in web browser (at the time AOL bought Netscape, the Netscape code was such a mess that AOL couldnt' even integrate it into the AOL software. The MS component plugged right in.)

IE pre-XP SP2 is a security risk without a doubt.

[tort_feasor]

My thoughts exactly. Browsers are free!!!!!!!!