blog.mozilla.com— The Mozilla community is celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads by earning 500 million grains of donated rice, enough to feed 25,000 people.
Feb 22, 2008View in Crawl 4
I say this every time the argument comes up - in many business environments, Firefox alone is just not sufficient. I'm an avid Firefox user myself, but I HAVE to keep IE around because sites I use daily (FedEx, Merrill Lynch, the JP Morgan Chase wire transfer service, for example - pretty much all Java-based apps I've run into so far) don't support Firefox.Yes, I know there's an addon for Firefox that renders the page as though it were coming in through IE. Tried it - no good. I still get the incompatibility message, or the damn thing doesn't load at all. Maybe these numbers will help convince more developers to make their stuff FF friendly =(
I hate to be the one to spoil the party but soon Safari 3 will be bundled with iTunes and these Firefox stats will be quickly forgotten. I like Firefox and I use it but Safari 3 with the Saft plugin, Safariblock and inquisitor RULES. Digg me down baby!
I'm glad you have to supply specific instances of code, where as almost anything you do that is (bold goes here)standards compliant(bold stops here) in Firefox looks messed up in teh internet explorer. I hate having to code three or four different times just so that everything looks nice in each browser. Standards for teh wins.
Uh, I'm no math whiz or IE enthusiast, but since it comes pre-installed on most if not all brand name computers, I would say it gets a bit more than four...
irelinquishFeb 22, 2008
Could you please explain this to my wife?
Closed AccountFeb 22, 2008
I say this every time the argument comes up - in many business environments, Firefox alone is just not sufficient. I'm an avid Firefox user myself, but I HAVE to keep IE around because sites I use daily (FedEx, Merrill Lynch, the JP Morgan Chase wire transfer service, for example - pretty much all Java-based apps I've run into so far) don't support Firefox.Yes, I know there's an addon for Firefox that renders the page as though it were coming in through IE. Tried it - no good. I still get the incompatibility message, or the damn thing doesn't load at all. Maybe these numbers will help convince more developers to make their stuff FF friendly =(
horseloverfat8Feb 22, 2008
People - food = death
adila01Feb 22, 2008
Yeah, the University of Florida has it standard on all its PCs :D
haloevoFeb 23, 2008
10% at best? Are you f**kin' kidding me........Question. Are you still running at a res of 800x600? Updates man. Updates.
haloevoFeb 23, 2008
and f**kin nasty, too.
Closed AccountFeb 25, 2008
I hate to be the one to spoil the party but soon Safari 3 will be bundled with iTunes and these Firefox stats will be quickly forgotten. I like Firefox and I use it but Safari 3 with the Saft plugin, Safariblock and inquisitor RULES. Digg me down baby!
revofmMar 6, 2008
I'm glad you have to supply specific instances of code, where as almost anything you do that is (bold goes here)standards compliant(bold stops here) in Firefox looks messed up in teh internet explorer. I hate having to code three or four different times just so that everything looks nice in each browser. Standards for teh wins.
revofmMar 6, 2008
Rice = french fires now? WTF?!!
revofmMar 6, 2008
You mean besides the people who make addons and themes for it?
revofmMar 6, 2008
Well, you speak/type English better than the "I download and reinstall it every day, to make sure I don't keep any spyware!" guy.
revofmMar 6, 2008
Uh, I'm no math whiz or IE enthusiast, but since it comes pre-installed on most if not all brand name computers, I would say it gets a bit more than four...