Naaah. Tacky collector's plate is the way to go here.
Posted on 04/30/2005 6:48:42 AM PDT by r5boston
The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser passed a significant milestone in adoption on Friday, with more than 50 million copies of the program downloaded, according to its distributors.
To commemorate the moment, the foundation said on its Web site that it would create 50 limited-edition coins, to be distributed to people with stories of spreading the browser online. An additional, a still-unnamed prize will be given to the owner of the Web site responsible for the 50 millionth download.
"It's funny how the counter just blows by 50 million without a care in the world, isn't it?" Mozilla developer Blake Ross wrote on the foundation's Web site. "But it's not just a number to us. It's a validation of half a decade of work, and the beginning of half a decade more."
With its first full-fledged release last November, Firefox has shaken up a Web browser market that most analysts had deemed almost wholly mature. For the first time in years, the market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has begun inching downwards as Firefox adoption rises.
Much of the interest in Firefox has been driven by repeated security holes found in Internet Explorer. Some prominent security researchers have even recommended against using IE if possible, a criticism that has stung in Microsoft executive suites.
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I've been using Firefox for about a month. I like it better that IE, that's for sure. I like the use of tabs and everything I've read says it's a lot more secure than IE. So far, Firefox has been a really good experience.
Ditto...but watch the viruses begin.
Naaah. Tacky collector's plate is the way to go here.
The honeymoon is over - malware authors are now targeting Firefox as successfully as IE. The stories are only now coming in about the many flaws in the program as well. Security websites have all the statistics and while Firefox may have provided a refuge, that refuge is only temporary.
There are some nice features in Firefox but on my machine Firefox and Thunderbird both run slower and slower and slower until I have to kill both processes to even be able to use the computer.
As with any Mozilla browser far and away better and faster than IE.
It is not the browser that is suseptble to virus it i the operating system, Windows, so do not get rid of your virus check or your spywarechecker just because you are using Firefox
I'm sure you're right. Viruses were being written for IE because that's the one that everybody has been using. Now that Firefox is popular, I'm sure the hackers are already turning their attention to it.
"must... think.. in ....Russian..."
Exactly. And the same thing will happen with Linux if it every deveops a large marketshare.
Everyone puts MS down, and sometimes for good reason, but the main reason there are so many security flaws is that every hacker in the world pokes away at it constantly. We are talking hundreds, maybe thousands, attacking it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Nothing could stand up to that much malicious activity.
We are going to see a lot of FireFox flaws and I can't wait for the anti-MS people to start bad mouthing it as vehemently as they do Internet Explorer.
Thanks...did not know that.
I run spybot at least 3or 4 times a week and it almost always comes up with something...and I do use mozilla.
I run multiple FF browsers(mostly java apps) for work during the day. No problems here. I run a MS XP*home* with 500megs ram and 2.8 GHz processor(multi threading).
The U.S. Air Force doesn't agree with you. In fact, Firefox and Mozilla are banned from their network. IE 6 is the only authorized browser.
IE users try to trump up the "Firefox is insecure too!" argument and stating that Firefox is the next target. That is what the IE crowd is hoping for instead of actually looking at Firefox in an objective and unbiased light. Truly sad...
We'll see. So far Firefox has been working great for me.
I run WXP Home sp2 at home and it grinds to a halt in about 2 hours, that on a P4 3.2 with a gig of ram. I run WXP Pro sp2 at work and it grinds to a halt in about 30 minutes. P4 2.8 1GB of ram.
It's too annoying to have to kill FF and Thunderbird several times a day.
Take trip over to Secunia and read the truth rather than the factless noise you are trumpeting.
That's really strange. My dad runs FF too for work and his home(4 computers-all windows 98). He also has no problems. My workout partner owns a software development company and he runs all FF on his computers. He has technical reasons that he told me but I didn't understand. It had something to do with architecture. Iwish I knew why yours grinds down. I'll ask him today when we workout and I'll let you know what he says.
Oh, you mean like the anti-Microsoft crowd does? puhleeeeze!
Question: why are you celebrating 50,000,000 downloads? Do you have stock or a personal interest in it?
thats interesting...
I have WINXP PRO sp2 on 2 computers at home and have no problems whatsoever....except that they need rebooted about once a day and the older one tends to be a bit slow from time to time, but its over 3 years old now...
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