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Firefox Continues To Chip Away At IE's Share
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| Feb. 28, 2005
| Gregg Keizer
Posted on 02/28/2005 5:17:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
" half-a-percent-point increase each month"
Hmm, at that rate Firefox will catch up with IE round about 2014 or so.
Still, Firefox doesn't have to take over the browser world as far as I'm concerned. It just has to have enough share that webmasters will be deterred from writing IE-only code.
And if we do get a version of IE in which ActiveX OFF is the default setting it will do a lot to cut down on malwar regardless of how many people switch to Firefox.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:23:02 PM PST
by
Uncle Fud
To: West Coast Conservative
The guy that does our network stuff put this on my computer and I absolutely hate it.
To: West Coast Conservative
Save us from having to re-code our web pages to work in another browser. MSIE is free to anyone who ponies up for a PC and has gobs of features. The only utility I see in FireFox is the kick it gives to the IE folks to keep innovating. I hope MS awakens and slays another.
P.S. Nothing on the web is free if you have to plunk down $500 for a PC and 15+/month to connect (or spend the time and trouble to go to a public access point like a library).
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:25:47 PM PST
by
sefarkas
(why vote Democrat-lite???)
To: jennyjenny
What do you dislike about it?
To: jennyjenny
I am a Firefox heretic. I think it sucks.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:26:16 PM PST
by
MisterRepublican
("It’s my belief that (insert conspiracy), originated with Karl Rove and the White House.")
To: MisterRepublican
Why? What do you find so bad about it?
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:28:11 PM PST
by
xjcsa
(She died of loneliness...loneliness and rabies...)
To: MisterRepublican
It's way too slow and sometimes never gets me where I want to go.
To: West Coast Conservative
i use both.
you hafta use ie because many banks and the federal government do not accept firefox.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:31:49 PM PST
by
ken21
( warning: a blood bath when rehnquist, et al retire. >hang w dubya.< dems want 2 divide us.)
To: MisterRepublican
See if you feel the same way after your PC is compromised and your bank account is emptied out.
Using IE these days is just not safe.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:33:45 PM PST
by
mikenola
To: ken21
Which banks and fedgov sites have you had trouble with?
To: West Coast Conservative
I like Firefox and use it most of the time. Some stuff at work requires IE for the ActiveX garbage. At home I use Firefox about 99% of the time.
I will confess to having been a longtime Netscape user who only begrudgingly switched to IE.
To: ken21
I haven't had any problems.
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To: West Coast Conservative
I am sick of the, 'everything that is not Microsoft is great' attitude. I am tired of hearing the pro-firefox crowd crowing about how fantastic Firefox is. I'm sure it's just fine, but nothing is perfect, including IE. Gee, I wonder why virus authors would attack M-soft code...cause it's on 90% of the systems. Maximum bang for the buck. Why write nefarious code that has little chance of impact? Sheesh, if Firefox takes off, hackers will start focusing more on it too. Will Firefox then become 'taboo' like IE is now. I manage networks, and run IE in my offices, and have never had a problem from hackers because I take the necessary precautions. It's that simple.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:37:38 PM PST
by
FairfaxVA
(SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
To: FactsMatter
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:38:09 PM PST
by
ken21
( warning: a blood bath when rehnquist, et al retire. >hang w dubya.< dems want 2 divide us.)
To: ken21
I haven't had any trouble with Capital One and my wife has used firefox on the fafsa site before. What errors are you getting?
To: mikenola
Firefox is nowhere near infallible. Many of the same vulnerabilities that affect MSIE also affect Firefox.
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posted on
02/28/2005 5:40:07 PM PST
by
Ex-Dem
(This tagline has been defaced.)
To: FairfaxVA
Please compare # of remotely exploitable bugs between IIS and Apache. Seeing as how Apache has much more of the market it would stand to reason, using your way of thinking, that it would have a higher rate of compromises. But it doesn't.
The IE code is badly written and needs a major overhaul but one isn't scheduled to be made available to the public till 2006/2007.
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