Posted on 01/22/2005 1:46:33 PM PST by r5boston
From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers studied by online measurement company WebSideStory used the Mozilla Foundation's FireFox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent, the firm reported. WebSideStory said IE use has declined from 96.7 percent since June.
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Yep, I was on the look out for Bush2000 and the rest. They must be taking the night off (from FR).
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for about a month now and I love it! I got so sick of all the damn pop-ups on IE and none of the pop-up blockers did any good.
They've been doing that for a long time now, since before Firefox itself existed. Mozilla/Firefox was has been pretty popular among the hacker community.
One more, IE is better at parsing bad code.
Yeah on that it beats the competition with experience.
"Longhorn, wait until next year to get what others offer right now"
It appears that most of the features of Longhorn are available in Firefox and OS X already.
It already does it. Have all your tabs open, hit Ctrl-D to bookmark the page, and at the resulting dialog box make sure you check "Bookmark all tabs in a folder."
Foxfire is good, but I'm sick to death of this story. It is obvious that IE will continue to lose market share until it is rewritten from scratch and people have forgotten version 6. That will be several years at a minimum.
Replaying this story ad nauseum is simply Microsoft hating. I say, give it a rest.
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