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Firefox passes 50 million download mark
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| 04/29/2005
| John Borland
Posted on 04/30/2005 6:48:42 AM PDT by r5boston
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To: mlbford2
Iwish I knew why yours grinds down So does mine and I've used it on Win XP, Win 2000, Linux Redhat and Mandrake 10.1
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posted on
04/30/2005 7:50:34 AM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: r5boston
Firefox is very nice. Tabbed browsing. IE does not have that.
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posted on
04/30/2005 7:52:03 AM PDT
by
LibKill
(Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
The U.S. Air Force doesn't agree with you. In fact, Firefox and Mozilla are banned from their network. IE 6 is the only authorized browser. Stand by for the conspiracy hawks....
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posted on
04/30/2005 7:52:15 AM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: UseYourHead
The honeymoon is over - malware authors are now targeting Firefox as successfully as IE
I doubt it - firefox (and opera) do not allow the same level of access to the local filesystem as IE does.
To: softwarecreator
Sounds like a Microsoft / Government conspiracy to me...
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posted on
04/30/2005 7:58:13 AM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: UseYourHead
I've never had that happen.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:02:34 AM PDT
by
Abcdefg
To: r5boston
I've been running Firefox for several months and Thunderbird for several weeks, and I've had ZERO virus or spyware infiltrations. ZERO.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:04:09 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: softwarecreator
My empoyeer specified Netscape because that is what their intranet web pages were coded for.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:05:04 AM PDT
by
Abcdefg
To: UseYourHead
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=imp&period=allâ=11 http://secunia.com/graph/?type=imp&period=allâ=4227
Compare the two graphs. %30 system access and 19% security bypass for IE vs. %14 system access and 11% security bypass vulnerabilities for Firefox.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Highly critical
Product Affected By: 80 Secunia Advisories
Mozilla Firefox 1.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical
Product Affected By: 15 Secunia Advisories
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:05:11 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: UseYourHead
on my machine Firefox and Thunderbird both run slower and slower and slower until I have to kill both processes to even be able to use the computer.Strange, I'm not sure what would cause that. I keep FF and Thunderbird running on my machine 24/7 for weeks on end with no such problems.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:05:21 AM PDT
by
ecurbh
(All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
It wasn't at CENTCOM, which is at MacDill AFB....
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:06:30 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(MikeinIraq in 2020!!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:08:37 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: Mr Ramsbotham
The USAF have contracts with Microsoft, and they standardize their software
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:11:17 AM PDT
by
demlosers
(Rumsfeld: "We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy.'')
To: UseYourHead
I split my time between Firefox and IE on 5 or 6 different machines. It runs perfect on my SuSE and Win 2000 boxes but bogs and crashes on my XP systems. The bogging is pretty difficult to peg down.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:11:20 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(“I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising Arabian horses" Patrick Swazey)
To: softwarecreator
Stand by for the conspiracy hawks.... I doubt if it's a conspiracy. The government is usually the last entity to give up on the old paradigms, and usually adopts new ones just in time for them to have gone stale. It wouldn't surprise me, ten years from now, to find the Army issuing its recruits fatigue pants with crotches that hang down to their knees.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:11:32 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: evad
I run spybot at least 3or 4 times a week and it almost always comes up with something...and I do use mozilla.Are these actually installed spyware programs, or just cookie files? I would wager to say the latter, unless you are downloading lots of freeware programs and installing them willy-nilly.
Cookies are NOT spyware, but I think many spyware programs seem to pretend they are just so that it can find ~something~ and boost the claim that spyware is everywhere.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:12:13 AM PDT
by
ecurbh
(All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.)
To: UseYourHead
Take trip over to Secunia and read the truth rather than the factless noise you are trumpeting.Here is some more useless noise:
IE: Of the 64 advisories from 2003-2005 for IE 6
%14 Extremely critical
%28 Highly critical
%22 Moderately critical
Firefox: Of the 15 advisories from 2003-2005 for Firefox
0% Extremely critical
%13 Highly critical
33% Moderately critical
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:17:12 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: UseYourHead
I was waiting for the 1st M$ clone to give a negative post.
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:29:35 AM PDT
by
SengirV
To: Mr Ramsbotham
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posted on
04/30/2005 8:50:50 AM PDT
by
SengirV
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I just noticed though that some websites just dont support it at all and others have problems using macromedia in it, plus some java apps dont work too well.
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posted on
04/30/2005 9:09:15 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(This space waiting for a post election epiphany)
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