Mozilla: IE 7 to boost Firefox growth

CNet News.com ^ | 7/19/2005 | Ingrid Marson

[Mike Bates]

Just in case there are any Firefox aficianados out there.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Sthitch]

I would happily go back to Firefox if they get the memory leak issues taken care of. It shows so much promise, but those leaks are really a pain.

[zeugma]

All,

If you use the GreaseMonkey extension for FireFox, you need to upgrade now. See the GreaseMonkey Blog for details of the vulnerability announced today.

[Mike Bates]

Oh, memory leaks. Is that why this machine is r u n n ing s o s l o w . . .

[konaice]

Nearly half of all Windows-based business desktops are still using Windows 2000,

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.

[frogjerk]

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?

[frogjerk]

Which version are you talking about?

[markman46]

not every business purchases new computer's every year. the company I work for still has some(10-20) running w2k

[tutstar]

ping

[Eva]

My son has Mozilla on this computer and it is driving me crazy, but I thought that it was his connection.

[Rob_DSM]

All the computers in all of the computer labs at my college are running 2000 as far as I know, and at my job, only the newest computers have XP on them. We make do with the rest of them, and they just keep slugging on with 2000 or 98 (gasp!).

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.

[frogjerk]

Virtually every business I know is using XP, since you can't buy a machine with anything else on it.

Many large corporations with thousands upon thousands of users are not using XP.

[zeugma]

Why would you ever close your browser?

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. :-)

[FastCoyote]

"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.

[Rob_DSM]

I made that modification that's supposed to limit the amount of memory that Firefox can allocate, but I still have problems. After running it for a while, I'll close all the programs, including Firefox, and I'll still be using 100 or more MB than when I first boot the computer.

I assume that they're taking care of that issue with the new release.

[IamConservative]

I would happily go back to Firefox if they get the memory leak issues taken care of. It shows so much promise, but those leaks are really a pain.

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.

[oldcomputerguy]

"the company I work for still has some(10-20) running w2k"

I still run win2k and have XP at home. I am wondering why I have XP at all since it is so bloated.

Can anyone explain any advantages of XP over win2k?
I just don't see them at all.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"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.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[frogjerk]

Why would you ever close your browser?

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!