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- bossm4n, on 04/02/2008, -4/+83Can you imagine how bad IE would be if it weren't for Firefox putting constant pressure on MS to improve it.
- lsfloyd, on 04/02/2008, -1/+56I switched over to FF about two weeks ago, and I'm not going back to IE.
- DeskFlyer, on 04/02/2008, -2/+55At work browsing with FF 3.0b4. Although I'm the only one in my office who doesn't use IE.
- StarWarsFan, on 04/02/2008, -2/+40Not surprised.
- manstein01, on 04/02/2008, -0/+27If it wasn't for Firefox, MS would still be peddling Internet Explorer 6.
- N0vak4iN, on 04/02/2008, -0/+23The system works... Notice what happens when competition is weak or non-existent (e.g. Creative Sound Blaster)
- LuviMarie, on 04/02/2008, -4/+27Great can't wait for the day nobody else uses I.E.
- chanop, on 04/02/2008, -3/+23As an IT analyst, I require our programmers to make everything firefox compatible, which means they actually have to write the ***** right
- n3demonic, on 04/02/2008, -1/+20You mispelled douchebag
- Hoogs, on 04/02/2008, -1/+16My college's computers all have IE and Firefox on them, and the public library only has Firefox. Looks like most people are finally catching on.
- jasonsalas, on 04/02/2008, -1/+15yep..i've even got my team working on internal web apps with the FF betas. it's that good/reliable.
- credence, on 04/02/2008, -2/+14You're probably trolling (or a mac fanboi touting Safari), but FF 3.04b has fixed the memory leakage, by and large.
- motang, on 04/02/2008, -0/+12Yeah MS would still be at IE 6, because of Mozilla they have IE 8 in beta!
- webs05, on 04/02/2008, -0/+11I switched over in the days of 6.0. IE6 was clear sign MS has no idea what a decent browser is.
- ZeroFive1, on 04/02/2008, -0/+10My school switched to Firefox/Safari on the macs and Firefox/IE on the PCs. Luckily our tech teacher is an open source enthusiast.
- drachemorder, on 04/02/2008, -0/+10Exactly. Competition is good for everybody. It used to be that there were tons of sites that only worked in IE because they depended on IE-specific quirks or ActiveX controls. Now more and more sites are designed to work in any browser. I still have the IE Tab extension for some things, but I find myself needing to use it only rarely. And more often than not, if I have to use IE for something it's because my popup-blocking or filtering settings in Firefox are too strict, which is my own fault more than Firefox's.
- knetworx, on 04/02/2008, -0/+9Even though it comes along with the OS, IE would be a lot worse had it not been for FF. MS doesn't like being beaten, and they want to make sure they always have a presence. Just look at the Xbox. MS has never made money on it (they've reported losses on it every quarter since it came out.) Even if it never makes any money directly for them, they don't want to let Nintendo and Sony take over that market completely, so they will continue to produce gaming consoles, because gaming consoles are becoming more and more the center of family entertainment.
- rmw132, on 04/02/2008, -1/+10At my university, we have had Firefox installed for about two years. Many of our professors talk about it from time to time and they highly recommend that students use it. Surprisingly a lot do. They even have the tab preview plugin installed on the Firefox install as well across the network.
- CoaxVex, on 04/02/2008, -2/+11We enforce the use of Firefox on our proxy. Well, block IE actually... :-) We like opera and safari also.
- gowingsgo, on 04/02/2008, -0/+8As a sports junkie, I noticed that somebody at ESPN was using Firefox. They showed a live image of what was being displayed in the browser, and I couldn't help but smile seeing Firefox with the Adblock image clearly seen to the far right of the browser. I could never see myself ever using Internet Explorer or any other browser in the near future. Internet Explorer is an absolute disaster, just waiting to let in all types of malicious things.
- astrotrain, on 04/02/2008, -1/+9Too bad IE doesn't have a Spell checker add-on.... you should switch to improve your spelling.
- inactive, on 04/02/2008, -0/+8The IT/MIS departments at my last company didn't just switch everyone to Firefox in 2005/2006, they removed access to IE for all but a select few. Them's some forward thinking dudes right there.
- astrotrain, on 04/02/2008, -2/+10I'm thinking more in the lines of '4'... they would be giving it away with everything pruchased...and even throwing it in Happy Meals.
"Oh Look Mom! We got IE4 in our Microsoft Themed Happy Meal!.... WOW!" - astrotrain, on 04/02/2008, -2/+10Don't get us started with the 'list' of why Firefox is better then IE... The Digg comment system would crash.
- credence, on 04/02/2008, -1/+9I like the way you made a generalization and didn't back it up with any in depth criticism. So, to follow your excellent example - You're a moron.
- drachemorder, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7It matters as long as people still design sites that don't work in any browser. Those are rarer than they used to be, but they still exist. If enough people use Firefox, it forces designers to accomodate it in their designs, and it forces Microsoft to improve IE in order to compete. So everybody wins.
- astrotrain, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7Its time to lead your people to the browser promised land!
- luchid, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7Yes, yes it does. IE is a cancer.
- InorganicMatter, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7I would LOVE to deploy FF across the domains I manage. However, until there is an officially supported solution to send it out through Active Directory Group Polices with my choice of addons/plugins preinstalled, and set it as the default browser on all machines, I can't deploy it.
- vafada, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6I don't even remember when i used IE on a regular basis. For me it was Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Firebird, Firefox.
- BobEwell, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6Easier to delete your porn history?
- nxtwrld, on 04/02/2008, -1/+6the first fruits of IE7 distribution through automatic updates. While most business apps were designed for IE6 and later tweaked for FF no one really bother to prepare a IE7 tweak. Now it's either - no autoupdate to IE7 / throw away our business applications / pay the developers to weak it for IE7 / ...or get Firefox.
- swimmin00, on 04/02/2008, -1/+6ironically no matter how hard Microsoft tries it's no match for open source's possibilities
- vertexoflife, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5I've been with firefox since beta one, go to the back of the line, you.
- xDibblerx, on 04/02/2008, -5/+10Our "work" hates Firefox because they can't filter it as easy as IE so they banned the program and added it to the "unwanted program" portion of our virus program. Fortunately the IT guys are too computer illiterate to have heard of safari so now I can get to digg.com and woot.com again. One gripe... Safari really sucks but at least it works for now.
- Zeldafreak104, on 04/02/2008, -2/+7They have firefox at my school, and thats what I'm using.
- beerncheese, on 04/02/2008, -1/+6A couple days ago I tried IE7 because I thought the website I was browsing didn't support firefox (turned out, the site was just busted). Anyway, I hadn't used it it probably a year, when I got a popup! For a split second I thought "I have a virus or something!" Then I realized that it was just a popup, the kind I used to get (pre-firefox) every single minute. gg, IE. It was a wild ride.
- Emused, on 04/02/2008, -3/+8Real world example: we could not get IE 5 or 6 to run an opensource VOIP client, ran like a charm on Firefox 1.0.8, currently part of the company standard desktop image sets.
- Rosco, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4FF 3.0b4 here also. The only other FF users here are our IT guys, everyone else is IE
- michaelphw, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4Same with me, needed to bring more 'standard' compliance with me. The other guys bust my ass all the time for it though.
- luchid, on 04/02/2008, -1/+5Such a clear and coherent opinion, douchewag. Bravo! /s
- doshindude, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4do they call it foxfire.exe?
- Myztry, on 04/02/2008, -1/+5^ Sponsored by Microsoft
Is it just the taste, or is there some feature(s) you like that actually makes it 'sweet'
Firefox 3 beta is swift which is something actually quite useful. - astrotrain, on 04/02/2008, -1/+5...you have given into the Darkside young Nick5014.... there is no more hope for you.
- mattmess, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Not at my work... My boss recently told my team that we need to uninstall Firefox on our machines. Oh yeah, and I'm a software/web developer...
Believe it. - luchid, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4Yeah worthless IT depts are a dime a dozen these days. Most of them have some crappy Microsoft certification that even a trained monkey could pass.
- jsprewell, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4I work at CVS. Now, I don't know about corporate level, but at store level Firefox is the only way to navigate the CVS intranet.
- Frost9999, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4What Firefox needs to gain market share is someone like Dell to make it the default browser on their images. Or Sony...hell they are in direct competition with Microsoft so why not?
- swimmin00, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4hit the nail on the head
- knetworx, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4Unless MS got smart and tried to buy out Mozilla. It'd be a very sad day though once all the popups and spyware were added to Microsoft Firefox (TM).
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