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- Hazel77, on 10/11/2007, -3/+47I sincerely hope so. I've been encouraging everyone else I know to use it, and have got a couple of converts. I think more an more people are discovering how much better FireFox really is.
- Eddible, on 10/11/2007, -6/+45I doubt it personally. As much as we all like to slag Microsoft off, especially Internet Explorer, IE7 doesn't really give novice internet users any reason to go and download Firefox, or any other browser for that matter. I'm not saying IE7 is a fantastic browser, but it's worlds away from IE6 and I just don't see many people being too bothered to go download Firefox instead.
- maninblac1, on 10/11/2007, -7/+41Firefox isn't the first, or the last to do this. First it was Netscape, then it was IE, now it's firefox, who will be the next browser to dethrone the giant. Use what you like, not because others use it, or tell you what you need to use.
- ROFLance, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28The Firefox!
- rolf, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26In a few short years using FF, I just wouldn't want to go back to IE. It was about the tabs in the beginning, but now with all the plug-ins, I am locked in like MS traditionally does it -- except FF is free so it's okay.
That said, as long as IE doesn't have a monopoly anymore, I don't care if FF gets the big chunk or if it goes to several others - alternatives and competition is always good. Afterall, FF can also get stale with lack of serious competition. - dragonking6v, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24Of course it won't
60 percent of computer users don't care about what programs they use as long as they can get online. IE is the internet to them. As long as ie is preinstalled on windows, and as long as windows dominates ubuntu, firefox will not get 50% market share. - richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19You're an idiot.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19nope
- zeptobyte, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12The Firefox is the best program to use to get on the online.
- FluffyArmada, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I'm willing to bet, that had I understood that, it would have been really funny. So I dug you up just in case.
- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -10/+18Other browsers will be born. What a teaser question and a no-brainer from a blogger that even bashed Firefox a couple of week ago just to provoke (read: troll) and drive up traffic=ads=pay.
- shadowmoose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Who the hell diggs this crap to the front page? Nothing against firefox, I'm using it right now but c'mon.
- chugger1992, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I don't think so...
A lot of users, such as myself, have atually switched from Firefox. Opera is gaining market share with all the built-in features and its speed that is faster than Firefox. Yes, it is. Opera can run comfortably from less than 128mb RAM, I guarantee it.
Meanwhile, overbloated with "security" features, Netscape's unsinkble ship takes a dunk for the worse. Wow, Netscape is a lot like Titianic, only people don't die from Netscape. - iSmart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.
- daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6In other news, 40% of statistics online are *****.
Changes take time and education takes time. The new generation of computers user who are more educated and informed will replace the old generation. - fatejudger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7That's a far different scenario. Google's search algorithms were, at the time, far more advanced than its competitors--making it the clear choice.
- gometro33, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8What do you consider a long time? IE7 hasn't even been out for a year, has it?
- greatblackowl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6at my university, school-bought computers come with Firefox preinstalled and as the default browser. If IT people keep pushing firefox, I think we'll see it more in University and corporate settings, which a huge potential market.
- RobynG7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I believe you mean '25% and rising'.
- Gadren, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Agreed -- I like Firefox because it has good features, and it's conceivable that if IE or some other browser was better, I'd use it. Firefox is great because it woke up the sleeping IE and made it better itself.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Firefox has to stop the excessive memory leaks first. It gets to the point now where I have to restart my firefox browser 4 - 5 times a day now :(
- ProgressBar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I believe the logic points are:
1. Idiots don't know or care what browser they're using, which means it's probably IE.
2. Most Americans are idiots.
3. Most Americans have computers. - bmxboy661, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6welcome to the internet
- kris33, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Firefox is quite good, but not super, unfortunately. Scrolling is blocky and page rendering is really slow. It also uses a lot of RAM, and is not very integrated on OS X. Some of the problems will be fixed or improved with version 3, but not nearly all of them.
Sorry to say it, but I fear Firefox will never be superb. Since it has such an large user base, they will never make the large and revolutionary changes required to stay on top of the browser market.
I just wish somebody would make a OSS mix between the best features in browsers today. Rendering from Safari, bookmark-system from Firefox(3), integration from Camino, innovativeness from Opera, new and better plugin-system (and probably a lot of things I forgot)
That would have been perfect! - nemoder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Not unless OEMs start shipping it as the default browser and label the icon "internet"
Most people don't even know what a browser is, why would they try and change what the default was set to? - greatblackowl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Either way, we (the consumers) win. I would personally enjoy new open source browsers being released and made popular, though I like firefox a lot..
- specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You are right about FF running god awful on old machines. But your assumption that developing countries are using old computer is not actually true, unless you meant governments. Hell, people here go crazy for 1GB extra RAM as you Americans do.
- iamnoskcaj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I was LMAO too!
It sounded about as graceful as someone was saying, "The Internets!" - dustinmacdonald, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8No. IE7 isn't nearly as bad as IE6 was. And I would not be surprised if Safari takes away a good chunk of Firefox's market share now that it is available on Windows.
- hunchback, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The end user experience is very different from the web designer's perspective, web designers really really hate IE, because it handles CSS is non-standard way, Firefox is not fully standards complaint but my god IE is retarded by comparison.
- kahrn, on 10/11/2007, -7/+10I'll get dugg down for this but..
I think a market share of around 50% would be very very hard. Why you ask? Because firefox cannot run on old machines.. or low spec machines that are used and are increasingly being used in developing countries.. or mobile devices.
How can you expect a browser to gain market share, all while having the developing world grow it's userbase of internet users using low-spec machines? It'll be almost _impossible_ for them to run firefox and as a result I think we'll start to see other shares increasing for other browsers.. maybe opera.. maybe IE.. hell maybe even dillo or elinks. They cannot *afford* the sort of hardware you need to run firefox.
Sure, you can digg me down. I don't really care. But I do care about future development, so maybe people should consider making a lightweight fork of firefox based on firefox 1.0.x or something. I know I'd help. - natenovs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3you know none of that has to do with the browser, right?
in fact, none of it makes any sense. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3dugg for "mouth vacuum"... What a killer idea :)
- Andrej73, on 10/11/2007, -10/+13Yes
- leohart, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Download really means nothing because people want to try out new software. There will be some that stick with the new one but there will be quite a few who will revert back to Firefox.
- daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Downloads is different from use? People download to try because Safari just comes out. Whether they actually use it is a different story. May be you should just calm down and stop acting like a Mac fanboy.
- chugger1992, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah, the tiny little bar to open the sidear is pretty tiny (5px to be exact)...
the tab bar isn't hard to get used to, and you can use the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab.
Opera 10 will probably be the FF killer, though. They have a lot of places to improve, and a lot of places that are better than Firefox. - chugger1992, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4a lot of us just want to try a Mac browser for Windows ^.^
btw, Safari ain't bad :O - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3try out the latest alpha build of firefox 3 called gran paradiso 6. its really good and you can use it to surf digg pages in excess off 500 comments without having firefox locking up. if Firefox 3 keeps on going in this direction then i do see it gaining 50% market share. Google should do more to promote firefox. its only fair because now i end up using google 99% of the time because of the built in search in firefox.
- chaos386, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Firefox is the best way to access The Google.
- hunchback, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Loading plugins freezes everything while the plugin loads, javascript rendering takes quite long, very very long if you load a few tabs with javascript heavy content. Just one heavy javascript page would freeze everything as well, one example, when loading a gmail page, until that page loads, you cannot switch tabs or do anything.
Can this be fixed if Firefox used the Webkit engine instead of Gecko? Mozilla is making millions from Firefox (the browser search field) why not spend some resources on Gecko optimizations? And I mean go for the ultimate review and rework, not just some bs sissy optimization attempt. - championchap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Google may not promote firefox a lot, but they sure do help out.
The searches conducted through the firefox search bar actually earn money for the developers to spend on furthering the project.
I think it was the search bar anyway, that or the pretty firefox google page that we get. - Jeffler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3...ever think because Safari is new for Windows, and Firefox has been around for 3 years?
Its like comparing purchases of Office 2007 vs. 2003 if they were the same price... - s1mph0ny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Actually IE7 is still just as buggy as ever.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Everybody I've shown FireFox too has converted. They are sick of IE bugs, crashes and sluggish speed.
- DamnMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Firefox is starting to bloat. by 2009 we will all start jumping ship to some other new thing. its starting to get a bit too big and slow. It still works fine and dandy now but its getting there, an SQL managed bookmarking system anyone? I'm taking the advice of some of the earlier posts and am using Opera for the first time in years today. 10 minutes into it and not to shabby.
- omjeremy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Honestly, most people will use what they're given. Windows comes preloaded with IE. That's the reason why IE became the dominant browser in the first place, and also the reason why it will remain the dominant browser in the future. If Windows never came preloaded with a browser, we might be seeing a different situation at present.
- robwilkens, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The Interwebs you mean
- catfud, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7Opera is the best browser hands down
- iamjake, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It'll be tough to "dethrone" IE, as maninblac1 suggests, because IE is pre-installed on 90% of the PCs sold today.
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