Posted on 07/19/2005 11:13:35 AM PDT by Mike Bates
The Mozilla Foundation is expecting to see a surge in interest in the Firefox browser from enterprise users once Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 7 next year.
IE 7, which will be available in beta this summer, will not be available to users of Windows 2000.
Asa Dotzler, the community coordinator at the Mozilla Foundation, said Tuesday that he hopes to attract many corporate Windows 2000 users to the Firefox browser, since they will be unable to take advantage of the improvements in IE 7.
"We have high hopes that we'll do better and better in (the enterprise) space with Windows 2000 users," Dotzler said. "We're excited about Microsoft launching IE 7--it will remind a lot of people that if they want better features they have to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading" to Windows XP.
Nearly half of all Windows-based business desktops are still using Windows 2000, according to a recent survey by AssetMetrix, meaning that there is a big market for the Mozilla Foundation to tap into.
Firefox 1.1, which is due for release this month, will include a range of features to encourage companies to migrate to the open-source browser, including an auto-update and preference locking feature.
The auto-update system, which Dotzler described as a "world-class update system," will allow users to automatically install patches and updates, rather than needing to reinstall Firefox each time an update is released. Version 1.1 will also include improved tools to lock down browser preferences, he said.
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Oh, memory leaks. Is that why this machine is r u n n ing s o s l o w . . .
What world are they getting their statistics from?
Virtually every business I know is using XP, since you can't buy a machine with anything else on it.
Further, I've never understood the attraction of Firefox, since the full Mozilla loads faster, and has more features. Try it yourself. Put both on the same machine and see which launches faster. If you are in and out of your browser dozens of times a day it makes way more sense to runn the full mozilla.
Why would you ever close your browser?
Which version are you talking about?
ping
My son has Mozilla on this computer and it is driving me crazy, but I thought that it was his connection.
There's a lot of businesses out there that can't afford to be upgrading their computers every couple of years or every time Microsoft says we need the latest and greatest. I think the 50% statistic sounds about right.
As for my personal computer, I always go for the latest stuff! Hehe.
Many large corporations with thousands upon thousands of users are not using XP.
LOL. That's the first thing I thought too. Unless you're running really tight on ram, there isn't much reason to. If you're running windows, you're going to have to reboot sooner or later anyway. :-)
"not every business purchases new computer's every year. the company I work for still has some(10-20) running w2k"
I'm jumping my homebased business applications over to Linux/Java/Mysql longterm, but I still have Win2000 machines that will be around for a while. So to little offices with 5 to 20 computers this is a big deal. Let the corporates subsidize windows all they want.
I assume that they're taking care of that issue with the new release.
I have noticed memory leaking. Memory leaks are fairly easy to find and there are numerous utilities to help. Firefox also blows up fairly frequently if you view a video that uses the Windows Media Player plugin.
"memory leak issues taken care of. It shows so much promise, but those leaks are really a pain."
What is this issue? I run Firefox and haven't run into this issue.
Interesting. With Netscape I had serious memory leak problems. None with FF. Yet, I have seen in mosilla NGs that others are experiencing these leaks.
LOL. That's the first thing I thought too. Unless you're running really tight on ram, there isn't much reason to. If you're running windows, you're going to have to reboot sooner or later anyway. :-)
Tabs baby, TABS!
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