spreadfirefox.com— Spread Firefox Announced: A new Xiti Study shows that Firefox has now more than 20% marketshare in Europe and more than 15% in the U.S. Check it out!
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I think the coversations above show why we use Firefox: because normal people can. I wouldn't touch Opera because it's community is infected with people like the above.
Firefox is open source so you get a comforting feeling using it, it's just no where near as good as Opera. If someone were to offer a Firefox based browser that's an alternative I'd use it, it would have to have all the features Opera has that extensions don't quite get right, and obviously the interface and speed would have to be better.I think rivalry between FF and Opera is silly, a) Opera isn't nearly as big, b) there is a much greater evil that is Internet Explorer. These statistics are probably BS, but I see more people converted (some by me to FF or Opera) everyday.
"Does anyone else find it ironic that schools are still using Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer for Mac? :P"Not at the school district here.. they use firefox.
jkfan87: eat your own words. google is an advertising company. thats how they make their money. they compromise by adding ads and cluttering up their page.mozilla doesn't advertise, althought it could like opera. now whose idiotic? if these guys were out to make a f**king profit then they wouldnt open source it, give it away for free, and add ads. they incorporated themselves for tax reasons you dumb f**k. as a foundation they couldn't do s**t to keep their non-profit status, but as a corporation they can now do more. either way, they receive the same amount of checks from google.seriously, your arrogance astounds me.
nullmindJan 17, 2006
I think the coversations above show why we use Firefox: because normal people can. I wouldn't touch Opera because it's community is infected with people like the above.
Closed AccountJan 17, 2006
Firefox is open source so you get a comforting feeling using it, it's just no where near as good as Opera. If someone were to offer a Firefox based browser that's an alternative I'd use it, it would have to have all the features Opera has that extensions don't quite get right, and obviously the interface and speed would have to be better.I think rivalry between FF and Opera is silly, a) Opera isn't nearly as big, b) there is a much greater evil that is Internet Explorer. These statistics are probably BS, but I see more people converted (some by me to FF or Opera) everyday.
driedwaterJan 17, 2006
"Does anyone else find it ironic that schools are still using Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer for Mac? :P"Not at the school district here.. they use firefox.
wookiekillerJan 17, 2006
As a Firefox user, I always love to see the market share go up.
curtissthompsonJan 18, 2006Submitter
<a class="user" href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2059216&from=rss">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/2059216&from=rss</a>Is Slashdot now taking news from digg rather than the reversal (digg taking stories from slashdot) now?!The story was only reported today at 5:08 P. M.!
bashJan 18, 2006
jkfan87: eat your own words. google is an advertising company. thats how they make their money. they compromise by adding ads and cluttering up their page.mozilla doesn't advertise, althought it could like opera. now whose idiotic? if these guys were out to make a f**king profit then they wouldnt open source it, give it away for free, and add ads. they incorporated themselves for tax reasons you dumb f**k. as a foundation they couldn't do s**t to keep their non-profit status, but as a corporation they can now do more. either way, they receive the same amount of checks from google.seriously, your arrogance astounds me.