Yes, but only if you can think in Russian.
Posted on 12/22/2004 8:32:38 AM PST by holymoly
Remember those days back in 1995, when Netscape Navigator was synonymous with internet? That was the time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer entered the market for a head-on collision with the Netscape Navigator. That was Browser War –I. Now the battle was reignited by the fire of FireFox, internet browser of Mozilla. This is the beginning of the Browser War –II. And it appears that this time Microsoft is losing it.
Internet Explorer is rapidly losing market share. OneStat.com a company in Amsterdam had conducted a worldwide survey in late November. The survey shows that Internet Explorer's share dropped to less than 89 percent, 5 percentage points less than in May. FireFox now has almost 5 percent of the market, and it is growing.
Net surfers are opting for FireFox to Internet Explorer due to security concerns. FireFox offers much more security from worms and viruses than IE. FireFox 1.0 was released for free on the web on Nov. 9. Within just one month 10 million copies of the browser were downloaded. It is an open source software which improves with time as bug-reporter and bug-fixer community grows.
Mozilla’s President Mitchell Baker is optimistic that FireFox will grab 10 percent market share and Mozilla's many technology parts will become an increasingly important application development platform.
She says that “the product is so nice that people love it when they try it. It is innovative and has new features, it makes the Web a more enjoyable experience, it makes people more comfortable, and it's fast. It's a set of things you would want in a browser if you sat down and really thought about it.” She added that people rarely realize that the quality your web experience is determined to a large extent by the kind of browser you use. Firefox gives them that wonderful browsing enjoyment.
Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of product management for Windows on the other hand feels that people will stick with IE when they consider all the things that made them to opt for IE in the first place. He said that Microsoft is developing a new version of browser but one will have to wait till 2006. Schare said that Microsoft goes to people and gets there feedback on what they want and what they don’t want in a product. It is not so easy to satisfy absolutely everyone.
To us however somehow the diminishing share of IE from the market says something else. It says that nowadays costumers have a new way of giving a feedback. They just switch to someone else.
Is there a Firefox extention to perform this?
I agree, also I had more spyware then with msie.
Where are they? I didn't see them on the mozilla site.
http://discuss.50plus.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/004288.html
You just think at it.
In Russian.
I've got the question up on the mozzilla support forum. I'll see what comes of it. I have done the changes mentioned here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
and it is faster than IE on my intranet.
WooHoo! You were right! I changed to the automatic proxy config address in my IE and I am flyin' with Firefox!
Yesssssss
Thanks for three good responses. I haven't used Firefox yet because I generally haven't experienced the security problems that others have suffered with IE. Unfortunately, there are too many people who treat their PC like a TV or toaster oven and have absolutely no idea how to maintain their PC and protect against security threats. On a weekly basis, I update and run Adware, Spybot S & D, Spywareblaster (which does a wonderful job preventing spyware/malware from loading in the first place), CWShredder, Cleanup!, and BC Wipe. I also use Norton Internet Security. I rarely have any problems.
I'm an Internet Explorer fan. I used Netscape from the time of the initial betas, but I gave up on it.
To speed up loading of IE, you just set "About:Blank" as your home page.
To block ads and popups seamlessly, and also save a great deal of time loading pages that have ads on them, I use Ad Muncher. There's a small price for it, but it's a brilliant program, and it blocks the ads before they download.
How do you add tabs to the toolbar? I couldn't find how in Help. TIA
Yes, but only if you can think in Russian.
you can do the "About:Blank" with mozilla/firefox too. I just find by bookmarks page to be more useful than a blank sheet.
Great minds obviously think alike (c8
Great idea, but I noticed that it only includes the default bookmarks that come with Firefox. It does not reflect what is really in your bookmarks.
I opened it in wordpad and noticed I could hack the HTML to reflect the contents of my bookmarks, but that seems to be about the only way I can find to let it reflect where I really want to go.
Yes. If you can use IE, it should not be much of a transition, but there are some really good features.
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