Posted on 11/11/2007 8:57:41 PM PST by fallingwater
Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.
Since then, Firefox, which has prospered under the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, has grown to be the largest rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, with 15 to 20 percent of the browser market worldwide and higher percentages in Europe and among technology devotees. It is the most popular alternative browser since Netscape, with about three times as many users as Apple’s Safari.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Firefox was written on Netscape source code.
Microshaft sucks
I used to like firefox. Now it always crashes on me. Especially at michaelsavage.com and stories regarding Clinton planting questions during her Iowa town hall meetings on foxnews.com. What’s up with that?
On of your plugins or something is broken.
try opera
Whatever-—I don’t understand much of this stuff, but I use Firefox on my Mac, and absolutely love it
Dunno. It crashes on me now when I play youtube type vids, so I keep IE for that purpose, but I hate IE
I think Bill Gates is playing games. I never send an error report to microshaft.
I hope to be 100% Linux here soon
Ping!
I use firefox almost exclusively. It has interesting add-ons
that cut down on online ads.
Firefox is a solid program
Sounds like the other thread I read today where Creflo $$$$ was living in luxury with his Rolls Royce being a modest preacher after raking in 69 mil$ from his mega church. Pretty nice to make that kind of cash from a non-profit organization, or as she prefers to call it a "hybrid" type entity. Very convenient.
Maybe with that "poor stepchild" salary she is pulling down, she can afford a hair stylist now.
I use Firefox all the time and she hasn’t got a dime from me.
Maybe re-install, sounds like something ‘broke’ — I never have trouble with Firefox, and I have used it almost exclusively for the past 2 years.
I tried K-Meleon for awhile, which is another browser put out by the Mozilla people....... liked it at first, on certain websites it is quick and snappy (supposedly it is based upon the same source code as Firefox, but in a more stripped-down version??). However, over time and as I went to a lot more websites I found that K-Meleon often seemed more sluggish and I went back to Firefox.
Any techies out there able to compare Firefox, K-Meleon, Safari, and other browers? I also tried Avant for awhile but didn’t find any particular advantage to it and stopped using it.....
Part of Firefox’s appeal was its origins as a nonprofit venture, a people-powered revolution involving the most basic Internet technology, the Web browser.
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yeah the stupid red mozilla commie stuff. but Brendan Eich, head of mozilla, was never like that and wrote:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/05/socialized_medi.html
“Libeling freedom by associating it with its opposite is an old statist trick. Note that I’m no pure capital-L libertarian or “libertopian”: left without some kind of rule of law, too often the strong *do* prey on the weak. But the current mess of laws in the U.S. is mostly used to the advantage of the strong, and of the do-gooder Mandarin classes who pretend they’re for the weak.”
I pretty much run Firefox for most of my purposes. I found that Firefox 1.5 was very nice to use, but Firefox 2 is a disappointment.
there’s also the flock browser which is firefox with more integrated features flock.com
What? And lose the Weed Eater sponsorship?
But one annoying thing about Firefox, when downloading files for some reason it gives me no choice on which
folder to download it to and it only downloads directly on my desktop.
Which after downloading I have to manual move it to where I want it.
Images I can download to where ever I choose but anything else I have no choice.
Annoying but still better than IE
She needs to shut down the lawn mower before she checks the deck belts.
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