Posted on 02/28/2005 5:17:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Mozilla's Firefox keeps chipping away at Microsoft's massive lead in browser usage, two Web metrics firms reported Monday.
San Diego, Calif.-based WebSideStory, which last released usage numbers in January, said that in the last five weeks, Firefox has gained an additional 0.74 percent to account for 5.7 percent of all browsers used in the U.S. Microsoft's Internet Explorer, meanwhile, now stands at 89.9 percent, a drop from January's 90.3 percent, and the first time WebSideStory pegged IE as falling under the 90-percent mark.
"That 7/10s of a point compares well with previous increases," said Geoff Johnston, an analyst for WebSideStory. "From June to November [2004], Firefox saw a pretty steady half-a-percent-point increase each month."
While there are indications that Firefox's growth rate is slowing -- the latest numbers show a growth of about 15 percent over the previous period, while that period had grown by 22 percent over the one before that -- Johnston saw it differently. "I don't see [the growth] stopping or flattening," he said.
"The buzz around Firefox keeps growing, and it's buzz that drives people to change," Johnston added. "Mozilla's marketing has been very guerrilla. You're not seeing it spend millions of dollars on TV. Instead, it's a powerful ground swell."
"Firefox keeps plugging away with new features," said Johnston, of Firefox. "That's what got them where they are today. Microsoft's lack of development on IE left open a window of opportunity, and Firefox took advantage of it. Microsoft didn't think that window was there, but with the announcement that it's working on IE 7.0, they've realized that they had left the window open."
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I use three browsers, none of them are MS explorer. I'm to the point where I am afraid to open up My Computer because I know MS search calls home.
The Mozilla Foundation produces a browser especially for the Mac platform, called Camino. (Of course, you could just run firefox as a X application, since OS/X is really BSD Unix under the hood, but really, you should give Camino a try).
I would ditch MS in a heartbeat if
1- the wife didn't bring so much Win2K-based work home, and need "exactly what I use at work," and
2-Linux would finally reach "ready for prime time" and be at the stage where you could pop a disc in the drive, and install it without having to change hardware, join geek forums, and become conversant with Gnomes, Gnus, and other arcana so beloved by the Unix world.
read later
Good site- I recommend it.
Say again?
MS file search. I used to get a popup whenever I tried a file search. At one point it wouldn't even search until I turned on the spyware. Might have been an older MS version because it hasn't happened to me for a few years now.
DR Dos was sold to Novell and later to a small support company whose name I do not know.
Now you can find it at:
http://www.drdos.com/index.htm
I kept an operating system on a floppy for years and many times it got me out of a windows jam. Originally you had Windows on top of DOS, which was on top of the BIOS. The way it was designed if you didn't boot into some kind of DOS directly, operationally, you were still in windows.
Thanks for the info but I don't think that was the case as the box showed "default" user and asked for a name for that default. No other information. Will look for the bookmarks.
God forbid you should have to do your job. Sheesh.
You didn't read the next sentence, did you?
Firefox does too run on Mac!
Then why Camino?
I'm not sure, but I'm using Firefox right now on my Powerbook!
Because Firefox has a standard UI for all platforms, which makes it not "Mac-like" in certain areas. For example, Camino uses standard OS X buttons and popup menus in web forms, while Firefox uses its own set of widgets.
Do computer geeks get paid some kind of fee for installing this on their customer's computers?
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