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- skyline98, on 06/18/2008, -4/+324Firefox ignites the browser war and forced MS to update it's crappy IE6
simply MS didn't care after beating Netscape(RIP) and thought it won it all
i really think FF can break the 50% user - jeremyduffy, on 06/18/2008, -4/+214Firefox matters because it's the first browser that's not IE that has gained acceptance and wide-spread adoption in the last many years.
Though Opera users will bitch that Firefox takes their best ideas and makes them popular... - tonyDigger, on 06/18/2008, -5/+195But it is sad that there still are millions of IE users :(
- sgangwisch, on 06/18/2008, -2/+152It's because a lot of people think IE is the Internet.
- jryu, on 06/18/2008, -22/+159I'm pretty sure Opera introduced tabbed browsing long before Firefox...
Either way, I really like FF 3.0 - it's a great browser. - sneakeykop, on 06/18/2008, -1/+126Opera should've figured out a way to market it self to the general public alot better...
- futureb, on 06/18/2008, -4/+115okay, forbes, so why does the header of your website look so crappy in Firefox 3.
- sgtcaboose, on 06/18/2008, -2/+99Google funnels tens of millions dollars to Mozilla in exchange getting for a valuable spot on the default home page of the browser preferred by the most avid Web surfers and developers.
I didn't know that... now I love Google even more. - zerhynn, on 06/18/2008, -1/+89Forbes: Why
you need to
take some courses
in web site
design management. - borez, on 06/18/2008, -4/+84After one day of use I hereby declare that FF3...rules!
Article sucks though. - jetblackstrat, on 06/18/2008, -0/+74I don't know why you're being dugg down, its sadly true. I work at an ISP help desk and about 50% of our customers still think that the "Internet" = IE or worse than that: the internet = AOL.
- ButchersBoy, on 06/18/2008, -5/+69"Firefox was the first to introduce new features, like tabbed browsing" How many times do I have to read such a remark? Lazy, uninformed journalism.
- jryu, on 06/18/2008, -2/+60Did more digging...
It appears Opera introduced tabs June 2000 with Opera 4.0.
http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=opera4tab ...
This was before Phoenix 0.1 (Pre-Firefox) was released in Sept 2002. Tabs for Phoenix was introduced in version 0.3, Oct 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Fi ...
However, tabs for browsers were originally introduced by NetCaptor. http://www.netcaptor.com/
A detailed summary can be found here. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008433 ... See the comments.
Still, as a longtime Opera, IE, and Firefox/Phoenix user, I will say each browser has it's strong points. For now I'll be using FF 3.0 on my primary machines, and Opera 9.0 on my remote machines. - MrRuslan, on 06/18/2008, -1/+58I'm very surprised FF didn't get 50% of the browser market yet.
- treelovinhippie, on 06/18/2008, -2/+54Why Firefox matters... I've had tonnes of people ask, "why care about Firefox when IE7, Safari, Opera etc are all pretty much the same?"
Answer: the BIG different is in web standards compliance. Firefox is really close to 100% compliant, IE7 is far from it. That's my main point. Without Firefox to come in and shake things up, Microsoft would still be pushing their patented web technologies through IE8... and web developers would be cursing louder and more viciously than ever before.
Oh, and then you've got the awesome Firefox community and extensions out there :) - sgtcaboose, on 06/18/2008, -1/+47Adblock Plus. Google it. Download it. Love it.
- digifuzz, on 06/18/2008, -0/+43If Opera hadn't adopted that obnoxious "Advertisements Built In" business model, where they had revolving ads at the bottom of the browser (as was the case during the late 90's or early 2000's), and instead gave the browser away completely free, who knows - Opera may have been the "browser of choice". I don't know about anybody else, but that's what kept me away then, and by the time that was no longer the case, I was using Firefox (or was it still called Phoenix?) I've always thought Opera was amazing at rendering pages, and super fast.
- ostracize, on 06/18/2008, -10/+50Opera started it, Firefox popularized it.
- Agret, on 06/18/2008, -2/+37I'd start with a better default theme, ugh...
- dood, on 06/18/2008, -3/+36dood: Why Forbes Suck
Placing a survey ad that flies out from the side of the page and over the article text is stupid. But, hey, at least it works in Firefox 3 RC3. - frieddonuts, on 06/18/2008, -0/+29Yeah, I don't have AOL on my new comp and my mom asked me "How do you get internet?!"
- Spuy767, on 06/18/2008, -0/+28Whenever someone asks me to "fix" their computer, one of the first things I do is Remove IE from the desktop, replace it with FF or Opera, change the name to "Internet" and the icon to the big blue 'e'. After doing that, I almost invariably stop getting phone calls about viruses ***** up their machine.
- phauna, on 06/18/2008, -2/+30Firefox matters because of the plugins, which exist because it is open source. It is not enough better on it's own to make average people change over, however with the massive amount of customisation available for almost anything you want to do, it is amazing.
Personally, I need to use the Rikaichan plugin to study Japanese. Rikaichan is a kind of dictionary which looks up Japanese words when hovered over. Without this plugin I might as well not study at all. It just makes everything so much easier. Another amazing Japanese plugin is Kanjilish, which converts the first letter of an English word into that word's Kanji. - MrSpontaneous, on 06/18/2008, -0/+27RC3? You know, 3.0 final is out....
- pixelbeat_, on 06/18/2008, -0/+27Google fund mozilla for a more fundamental reason. So microsoft don't have full control of the browser. If they did then they would have much greater influence on the internet as they could update their browser in lockstep with proprietary features on their internet servers, thus making those servers more attractive than the competition.
- MrSpontaneous, on 06/18/2008, -0/+25They also pay for being the default search engine in the search bar. Mozilla is actually going to lose money because the awesome bar reduces the amount of web searching you have to do.
Mozilla = Awesome. - inactive, on 06/18/2008, -3/+28Everyone knows the internet comes from a linksys router.
- gcopenhaver, on 06/18/2008, -1/+26turn off your adblock plus for a second and you'll see why...
then i recommend turning it back on - betadan, on 06/18/2008, -0/+22Works fine here
- mcrules, on 06/18/2008, -0/+21I have adblock plus and its working fine here...
- FasterGun, on 06/18/2008, -0/+21Um, at what?
- Recluse, on 06/18/2008, -0/+20If more websites didn't require you to use IE then there would no reason to use it.
- cdigioia, on 06/18/2008, -5/+25I prefer Firefox over Opera strongly - but it sucks that dumb asses digg down your comment.
- puppyfox, on 06/18/2008, -0/+19I have people at work that not only think that IE is the Internet, but that msn.com is the beginning of the internet (they don't grasp that they can change home page). Worst of all, when msn.com is slow, they call me to "fix the internet". It's so sad.
- MozillaFirefox, on 06/18/2008, -0/+19It already has in Finland
- lcarsdeveloper, on 06/18/2008, -0/+18That was the biggest turnoff for me. Whenever I think "Opera" I always think "Shareware", and Firefox would have to really fall apart for me to want to switch browsers again. And I'd miss all my extensions, Web Developer and Firebug are essentials for me.
I still have Opera installed, just so I can make sure my sites work in it. I may not use the browser, but I'm going to make sure it's users can at least access my site! - manstein01, on 06/18/2008, -0/+18Tell me about it. Many of my users believe that the 'E' is the internet. Maybe FF 3 will be able to break them of the habit.
- wutname1, on 06/18/2008, -2/+19Cuz FF follows Standards 100%.... there site was probably made in front page *shudder*
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+16Hear hear. My first reaction was "What survey?"
- cdigioia, on 06/18/2008, -1/+16Especially in Asia, oddly enough. In Korea now, my god so many Korean sites don't work in Firefox due to developers only coding for IE...
- troye, on 06/18/2008, -2/+17I am surfing this on my Firefox 3. You know that feeling when you buy a new tech gizmo, that's what it feels like to surf on FF3 the day after it came out.
***** AWESOME!!! - lukeo, on 06/18/2008, -0/+15haha!!!! nice one!!!
- MindTrigger, on 06/18/2008, -0/+15Not surprising. Many people used to think American Online was the internet as well. As an IT pro, I can't tell you how many times I tried to explain to people that they didn't need AOL to get online, especially if they were using it on top of high speed connections they paid for separately. They would just sit there and look at me blankly, completely confused by what I was saying.
- HorseloverFat8, on 06/18/2008, -1/+15Good old Finland.
- tonyDigger, on 06/18/2008, -0/+14IE7 is a poor imitation of FF, developed in a haste.. Like that yahoo toolbar :)
Again too early to judge IE8, but FF is the E :) - nickgarvey, on 06/18/2008, -0/+14Yeah, I cringed a little too when I read that.
- sjinadasa, on 06/18/2008, -0/+13If you need forbes to tell you that firefox matters...
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+13Works here too - apparently it even blocked the Forbes survey, which I didn't realize until I read one of the earlier posts in this discussion ;)
- jebzaki, on 06/18/2008, -2/+15*insert comment about how much IE sucks and why firefox/opera are much better*
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -0/+13has for months
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