[Uncle Fud]

" half-a-percent-point increase each month"

Hmm, at that rate Firefox will catch up with IE round about 2014 or so.

Still, Firefox doesn't have to take over the browser world as far as I'm concerned. It just has to have enough share that webmasters will be deterred from writing IE-only code.

And if we do get a version of IE in which ActiveX OFF is the default setting it will do a lot to cut down on malwar regardless of how many people switch to Firefox.

[jennyjenny]

The guy that does our network stuff put this on my computer and I absolutely hate it.

[sefarkas]

Save us from having to re-code our web pages to work in another browser. MSIE is free to anyone who ponies up for a PC and has gobs of features. The only utility I see in FireFox is the kick it gives to the IE folks to keep innovating. I hope MS awakens and slays another.

P.S. Nothing on the web is free if you have to plunk down $500 for a PC and 15+/month to connect (or spend the time and trouble to go to a public access point like a library).

[xjcsa]

Netscape remnant here.

[ken21]

i use both.

you hafta use ie because many banks and the federal government do not accept firefox.

[visualops]

I like Firefox and use it most of the time. Some stuff at work requires IE for the ActiveX garbage. At home I use Firefox about 99% of the time.
I will confess to having been a longtime Netscape user who only begrudgingly switched to IE.

[FairfaxVA]

I am sick of the, 'everything that is not Microsoft is great' attitude. I am tired of hearing the pro-firefox crowd crowing about how fantastic Firefox is. I'm sure it's just fine, but nothing is perfect, including IE. Gee, I wonder why virus authors would attack M-soft code...cause it's on 90% of the systems. Maximum bang for the buck. Why write nefarious code that has little chance of impact? Sheesh, if Firefox takes off, hackers will start focusing more on it too. Will Firefox then become 'taboo' like IE is now. I manage networks, and run IE in my offices, and have never had a problem from hackers because I take the necessary precautions. It's that simple.

[Dudesdad]

I am using Firefox now on my Slackware Linux powered machine.
I can't seem to get IE to load.
BTW Firefox has some nice extension programs too.

[B.O. Plenty]

Yo GATES

....if you are lurking....make Firefox an offer they can't refuse heh heh heh....you know...money talks and bullsh!t walks kind of thing....or i'm gona break your knees...or cut off the head of your horse....then you'll get back up into the '90+ percent again.

[Drango]

Proud to be surfing w/ Firefox 1.0.1

[greasepaint]

I find myself using Firefox, more and more.
For me, Ff handles graphics heavy pages better than IE.

[laweeks]

I've been using Mozilla Firefox for a month or so, and I love it. For some reason, I've had fewer interferences, viruses and worms. Plus, everything is hunky-dorey in everything else.

[Plutarch]

Firefox is much more robust, much fewer pop-ups, and has a lot of nice features. Having switched, I much prefer it.

[Bigun]

Used FireFox for a while nad then I found a REAL browser and got it for FREE.

[B Knotts]

I'm not a big fan of Firefox...I use it for the site which are broken in Konqueror, which is what I use 95% of the time, since my desktop is KDE under Linux both at work and at home.

That said, if I was a Windows user, I'd use Firefox, as you'd have to be insane to use IE on the Internet, IMO.

[Psycho_Bunny]

For the way I use browsers, neither IE or FireFox are "perfect".

FF has features IE doesn't and visa versa. 

A few tweets to either would make them "perfect".

[John Lenin]

Opera is even better.

[thefactor]

I finally got cable modem in my apartment today. I had planned on downloading Firefox, but to my surprise, the cable guy who came and hooked me up downloaded it without prompting from me and set me all up. After 1 day on it, I love it and will use it. And I was a diehard IE fan.

[CARDINALRULES]

I use both IE and Firefox. I use IE for FR, Pogo and a few other select sites. I have both Yahoo and Google toolbars loaded. Right now the Yahoo is the default popup blocker and Google is just for the search.

I use FF for Slingo, Pogo (2nd and 3rd account), doing my e-mails and PTR.

I couldn't get Macromedia to work in IE other than the Flash, but it works great in FF.

[backhoe]

 

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Browser Wars, take two various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306815/posts ...and let your compiler of links drop out of Lurk & Link mode for comment and advice: Ditch IE. Honest to God, almost anything else will give you fewer problems. Try and compare- use IE, then run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy... then try another browser and repeat. You will be stunned at the garbage IE attracts. Keep your OS updated & patched. Run a hardware firewall-- with today's LAN's, it's easy. You need a hardware firewall. Use a software firewall, too-- if you don't, you'll never know how many times your PC is trying to "phone home" and send your info across the web.