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- claycollins, on 07/05/2008, -6/+204Death to IE
- Zpanzer, on 07/05/2008, -3/+97Couldn't see myself without firefox today.
- shoopdawoop, on 07/05/2008, -7/+59as a high level executive in the anti-virus/spyware business, LONG LIVE IE
- Dumbledorito, on 07/05/2008, -2/+50So if you uninstall it, you become invisible? Cool.
- balaurul, on 07/05/2008, -1/+45I kind of hated ff 2 cause it was such a memory hog but ff 3 is way f*king better ... superb piece of browser
- miochza, on 07/05/2008, -6/+50Firefox = FSM's Browser of Choice
- stutimandal, on 07/05/2008, -4/+36On windows:
Firefox 3.0 > Opera > Flock > Seamonkey > IE 8.0 Beta > Safari > 0 > IE 7.0> IE 6.0 - stretch611, on 07/05/2008, -1/+32Death to IE. For competition there is still Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Galleon, Lynx, and more,
IE8 will be allowed to live if it is really w3c standards compliant. - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+32Or goes blind.
- skidzilla, on 07/05/2008, -1/+21Well using IE too much could make you go blind anyhow.
- superkendall, on 07/05/2008, -2/+22Not much longer before we see a tipping point and adoption REALLY starts to climb.
I still use Safari more that Firefox, but I have to say that seeing Firefox with a majority marketshare would be fantastic for everyone - web developers would have to stick more closely to standards. - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+20I was sick of IE's crashing and otherwise screwing up. I retired IE in favor of Firefox 3
- s0m31john, on 07/05/2008, -1/+15PEBKAC
- theaceoffire, on 07/05/2008, -0/+13Yes, there are.
To quote: "Think of how smart the average consumer is. Realize that half of them are worse than that."
^_^ Although I guess it should be "median" consumer. - JNudda, on 07/05/2008, -0/+13wooooosh
- dullnation, on 07/05/2008, -0/+13What? Flock is just a modified version of firefox...
- cstaylor, 1 hr 12 min ago, -0/+13I see what you did there.
- ZachE84, on 07/05/2008, -7/+20The thing is, this number is not even close to correct. Every office worker is stuck to using IE. However, when they get home they use Firefox. You can basically double any figure released. So if it states 19%, it's really 38% market share.
Long Live Firefox! - Dumbledorito, on 07/05/2008, -2/+13Either you're computer illiterate, or you don't actually use Vista.
Regardless of which is true, what kind of powerbook do you actually use? - Kral, on 07/05/2008, -1/+12Seeing as it doesn't crash for most people, it's likely some addon or plugin they use that's at fault.
- Gudeldar, on 07/06/2008, -0/+11The Mozilla Corporation makes boatloads of money from Google to keep Google as their default search engine, don't you think there is a reason that the Firefox homepage is http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
In 2006 the Mozilla Foundation received US$66.8 million in revenues, of which 61.5 million is attributed to "search royalties".[2]
The foundation has an ongoing deal with Google to make Google search the default in the Firefox browser search bar and hence send it search referrals; a Firefox themed Google search site has also been made the default home page of Firefox. A footnote in Mozilla's 2006 financial report states "Mozilla has a contract with a search engine provider for royalties. The contract originally expired in November 2006 but was renewed for two years and expires in November 2008. Approximately 85% of Mozilla’s revenue for 2006 was derived from this contract."; this equates to approximately US$56.8 million.[2] - aserer511, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10And deservedly so! I'm back to 100% satisfaction with FF3; I had a nasty issue I just resolved with facebook; which now works flawlessly.
- JasonCox, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10As far as I know, Firefox has no Group Policy integration. But then again, what does IE really have? The ability to turn toolbars and addons on and off? Speaking as an IE lover and fellow network admin, that shouldn't prevent you from installing Firefox 3 on your network.
- iammzac, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10Slow and steady wins the race.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+12And people at work that can't install software, so let's figure out a way to solve that problem too.
- CAisBacK, on 07/05/2008, -1/+10IE controls the Market Share, so I guess there are a lot of retards......
- manitoba98xp, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9I've never used it personally, but I'm aware of this:
http://www.frontmotion.com/FMFirefoxCE/index.htm
It's a custom version of Firefox (updated for Firefox 3) which is packaged as an MSI (for deployment by Group Policy) and has support for being administered via Administrative Templates. You can set homepage, proxy settings, cache size and more.
Never used it myself, but worth investigating. - 15charmaxwtf, on 07/06/2008, -0/+9Firefox portable
- earthforce1, on 07/06/2008, -2/+10Shameless plug:
If you are impressed by firefox, maybe you might want to give other open source SW a try, i.e.
Thunderbird E-Mail
OpenOffice
Linux - Jedakiah, on 07/05/2008, -0/+8Sir you must not understand how they are "supposed to work". There are many things that seem like they should work a certain way, but aren't supposed to.
I have noticed a welcome increase in support for the specifications. Although CSS3 support is obviously lacking. - IphtashuFitz, on 07/05/2008, -0/+7I'm just glad to have a browser that works on multiple platforms. Between work & personal life I run a few versions of linux as well as Mac OSX & Windows XP. It'd really suck to have to use different browsers on them all. Having one browser that runs on them all is a Very Nice Thing (tm). Having that one browser be Firefox is icing on the proverbial cake!
- Grub, on 07/05/2008, -9/+16death to no product.
competition ftw. - YodaJones, on 07/05/2008, -0/+7Why the hell would anybody use IE? As far as nice rendering of pages, Safari looks the best, but Firefox works on all pages and is the best developers tool.
- kcfreels, on 07/05/2008, -1/+8ever think it might be whatever crappy extension you've got loaded? No extensions = No crashes. Nothing wrong with the browser
- damndj, on 07/05/2008, -3/+10Yah I know what you mean. I loaded up Firefox and it was the most difficult piece of software I've ever used. I couldn't even figure out how to type in a URL.
Thank god for Apple's ease of use. - Skinnytroll, on 07/05/2008, -1/+8Maybe you're doing it wrong.
- thecheatah, on 07/06/2008, -1/+8AAH, IE, lets go through a list of bugs I have found TODAY!!!!
1. Setting the size for a text box in ie 7/8 compatibility mode automatically adds about 6-7 pixels. So all your math to resize textboxes needs to have an extra if statement!
2. opacity is either not yet implemented in ie 8 or the developers have came up with there own band new way to of defining (opacity nor the filter hack work). Just use the ***** opacity tag you *****.
Any ways, this has been a public service announcement as to why I hate IE.
(I am not a fanboy, IE REALLY does suck [a lot of my time]) - alexlinebrink, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7I don't know where they get their stats, but I'm a web-designer/developer, and watching my personal pages and my clients' pages, I've been seeing 75+% hits coming from Firefox since the 3.0 release (it was around 60% before that). My totals automatically leave out my IP too, so it isn't rigged.
One site - my personal design & social marketing site ( http://www.thatindiedude.com ) - is dragging in nearly 95% Firefox.
Seems to me that Firefox is already the big winner on anything but AOL.com and MSN.com. - wolferz, on 07/05/2008, -2/+8I'm having an issue with flash audio not playing. I can play video as long as it has no audio track, but if it has an audio track only a small portion will play and without audio.
I had had this problem before with firefox and IE and the solution was to completely uninstall and reinstall flash... but that's not working now and IE isn't having a problem... nor is ff2 which is installed to another folder. - jbeardsl, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6Wife's laptop (vista) had major issues when I upgraded to FF3. However running windows update to pick up the latest few patches put things right. Try that.
- trickyt, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6you need to lay off the weed man. there are other meanings to the word high you know.
- petikeke, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6Not only finite state machines use firefox
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6I'd happily install Firefox 3 on the Windows networks I admin, but, I don't think it can have the settings changed with Active Directory. Does anyone know otherwise?
- juliehardman, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Only reason I downloaded it is because Digg logs you out every five minutes when using internet explorer 7 with windows vista. At least that is my experience!
- Jedakiah, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Since FF2 stopped working on my system I have been forced into using version 3 since beta 5. I noticed numerous crashes during the beta. But with the latest release I have experienced no problems.
I think most people's issues would be solved by an uninstall/fresh install of the latest version, and of course a stable system.
However the only stat counter I trust hasn't had a full month with FF3. I'll wait for W3C counter's July update to believe Firefox3's actual market penetration. - Zounas, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Never gonna digg you up...
- sergiodlopes, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Yeah, my brother was also saying that, until I uninstalled all the crappy add-ons he added installed. And FF3 worked just fine after that...
- JoeVet, on 07/06/2008, -1/+68 years of Bush. Yes there are a bunch of retards out there.
- srg13, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Well, it's fairly obvious that if you had a site targeted at smart people, you'd have a huge percentage of people using alternate browsers.
- ferrariman60, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4It runs great for me on Vista 64 bit. I do have some issues vs. FF2 on my eee that's running Kubuntu, but that's probably my fault. Of course, that install has also mysteriously been going to hell in the last week or so. I dunno, but I've had zero problems in Vista since FF3 Beta 3, when I downloaded it.
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