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FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share
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| 2004-12-22
| Giri. A
Posted on 12/22/2004 8:32:38 AM PST by holymoly
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To: Travis McGee
If Dirty Harry can fly one, I bet we could figure it out...lol
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:08:22 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Quisiera ser un pez para tocar mi nariz en tu pecera)
To: holymoly
Before I heard of Firefox, I took a one year subscription to Stopzilla, which is advertized to block popup's which were driving me crazy. Stopzilla keeps a running count of blocks so you can review them before clearing. I just checked and it had effectively blocked 224 popups between December 7 and this morning, so it really does work.
I have been using Firefox only for the past two weeks and it's hard to really be sure of it's claims since many protection safeguards work in the background. It does seem to work faster than Netscape or IE but it takes me a click or two more to get to my e-mail. The Firefox "homepage" isn't very jazzy but, one of the reasons that I switched to them was that I was fed up with the Netscape "news" summary which seemed to me to be slightly left of center and anti Bush in tone. They can go preach to the converted - I've stopped buying.
To: Labyrinthos
What do you think will happen if Firefox goes from 5% to 20% of market share, and the A-Holes who write and distribute adware, malware, viruses, and security threats now have the incentive to turn their attention from IE to FF? What will happen is that any single piece of mal-ware will not damage as much of the installed user base as it does now. Variety is a good thing.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:09:35 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Clypp
Does Microsoft make money off IE? If not, why do you expect them to care. Because the switch is so easy, so effective and makes their browsing so much better, that users will begin to wonder what other MS software they can think about dumping.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:10:36 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Travis McGee
FireFox is excellent. It loads slowly, but once loaded is very fast. It's more secure than IE. Get the adblock and spoofstick extensions and you should be in great shape.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:12:11 AM PST
by
Salo
To: China Clipper
What specific problems are you having? I've had a couple, but one or two have gone away.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:13:10 AM PST
by
1L
To: Labyrinthos
What do you think will happen if Firefox goes from 5% to 20% of market share, and the A-Holes who write and distribute adware, malware, viruses, and security threats now have the incentive to turn their attention from IE to FF?Of course that will most likely happen as the bigger you are the bigger target you become. But, with peer code review, (Which Micro$oft does not have), it will most likely be less of an issue.
In any event, I want to use the best product available that fits my needs right now, which in my opinion, is Firefox.
To: Labyrinthos
IE can allow access to parts of your operating system that third-party browsers do not
To: Salo
Get the adblock and spoofstick extensions and you should be in great shape.The adblock extension makes the whole thing worth it!
To: DeFault User
This might allow Uncle Sam (but I doubt anything BIG will come of it) to go after Bill Gates & Microsoft again for forcing a wbe browser to be part of the CORE of the operating system, this is the key reason IE is so vunerable to hacks.
One reason Microsoft might begin to worry if more & more users switch to 3rd party web browers. ADVERTISING & MERCHANDISING. Yes eh browsers are free but what are the bigest headaches in IE ? ? ? POPUPS and what are POPUPS but ADVERTISING. I always thought that MS got a kickback for allowing popups to become so easy to do in IE.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:15:01 AM PST
by
TheShaz
(If the Kerry Campaign was the movie TITANIC - this would be the scene where the rats are running.)
To: Hank Rearden
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:15:03 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Mr. K
I can just see the stockholder faces now! The Mozilla Foundation is a California not-for-profit corporation. Nobody there is concerned with turning a profit - just making a better browser.
To: Mister Baredog
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:18:29 AM PST
by
holymoly
(Merry Christmas! http://tinyurl.com/5mxvw)
To: toadthesecond
IE can allow access to parts of your operating system that third-party browsers do notThank God for that! This one of the major issues with IE!
To: Labyrinthos
What do you think will happen if Firefox goes from 5% to 20% of market share, and the A-Holes who write and distribute adware, malware, viruses, and security threats now have the incentive to turn their attention from IE to FF?
Read this:
An extended explanation on why Internet Explorer is insecure
It will answer your question(s).
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:20:39 AM PST
by
holymoly
(Merry Christmas! http://tinyurl.com/5mxvw)
To: Nick Danger
As is the case 100% (almost) of the time, your comment is spot on. I was going to write the same thing myself, but couldn't say it as well. If it weren't so important, then the court battles over the IE integration wouldn't have occurred.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:21:05 AM PST
by
jammer
To: Calpernia
WHat exactly do you mean by POSTDATA scripting? I know that programs like Curl will let you do pre-defined postdata for a page. I'd be interested in what you need from it.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:21:25 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: holymoly
Reading and posting with Firefox BUMP!
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:21:58 AM PST
by
freedomcrusader
(Proudly wearing the politically incorrect label "crusader" since 1/29/2001)
To: RobRoy
Sounds like a proxy using NTLM authentication or Firefox not using the default domain suffix...
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