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A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9
SilentBob4 writes "Mad Penguin is one of the first to review the latest Mozilla Firefox release, numbered 0.9. According to the reviewer, there's a lot to be thankful for, as this release is far more stable than its earlier versions and sports some new features along with a new interface. My new all-time-favorite line: 'Look out Internet Explorer... your days have been numbered for some time now, but Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaky foundations and standing in a small warm puddle'. Nicely put."
FP Bizznitch. Suck Boot
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Mozilla, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
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That has to be one of the top ten most fucking ridiculous /. suggestions ever. When you grow up, come play with us adults in the real IT world.
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The fact that someone can get modded +3 insightful while saying microsoft isnt in innovator blows me away.
Dont like Microsoft innovations? Fine.
Don't innovate? Just more slashdot trolls.
it's better that we have people login than to have spyware and viruses
What does that have to do w/the price of ginseng in Shanghai? Logging in does not prevent the proliferation of malware, lol.
PARENT == REDUNDANT
Lucky for you, there's now spyware being packaged for Firebird. That means you get to do the same 'lockdown' shit you thought you were avoiding with IE.
hey anyone want to mod me flainbait/troll/over rated? i'll call you open source users stuipid to add to the effect
read this fucking post which was posted hours ago you tiny shit
I think it would be really great to hire someone who makes webpages incompatible with over 90% of the potential market. It will cut my customer service costs even more than outsourcing would!
Creative geeks on Slashdot overcoming the financial hurdles of today's market by using open standards. I love it! Very forward thinking!
obviously you don't know wtf you are talking about, RTFM on Mozilla, and...
LOL.
What, like reviving their superior version of IE for Mac or porting some of the features to Winblows? Fat chance.
Microsoft is putting all of it's efforts into "security". That is DRM, code signing and BIOS efforts that will lock out competition. Their idea of competing it to break the competitor. If they were interested in improvements, they could have fixed some of the longstanding bugs that have been used recently to blow up systems.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Well then, you deserve everything your hubris invites.
Designing websites with XHTML/CSS is cake for both browsers. The thing is, is that anyone can create sites, you don't have to be a developer or knowlegable in any way. How many sites are just thrown together by someone who doesn't know how to make pages cross-browser compliant... and hmm I'd say they display much better with IE most of the time.
It used to be we had to design for IE and Netscape. I saw that pose so many problems especially for intermediate and under developer/designers, hence lots of people didn't even worry about Crapscape.
If you look deep enough you can find faults with all of the browsers. (I can think of one... style="height:1px" doesn't work on HRs in Mozilla/Firefox)
Are Firefox/Opera, etc... better than IE? Probably, but 90% + of the market is on IE and it render's nearly all pages fine. Unless you are trying to use the most advanced features from the current CSS cross browser pages should be simple.
We aren't talking about something that takes a rocket scientist, though I know from the posts that many here think the average rocket scientist is even below them.
If you're going to talk shit, you might as well back it up with facts. Got any?
You really think Microsoft is going to throw all of their resources into one thing?
OK, there really are two things they spend money on, acquisitions and advertising. Acquisitions includes DRM. Trolling Slashdot is part of their advertising effort. Enron had piles of money too. Too bad M$ has not used it's supposedly vast resources to fix, much less improve it's third rate browser in the last two years. How's that for a clue?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Of course you can.
It's a matter of course? How obnoxious. You're trying to make me feel stupid over this. Nice way to behave. That's going to make me feel better about Firefox, isn't it? Not!
Right click the toolbar, pick customise, and put whatever you want wherever you want.
Yes, I already tried that, not being stupid. It doesn't do what I want though. I already told you how I set up my toolbars in IE. Try to duplicate that in Firefox 0.8. Oops, you can't.
and kill the Google bar because the address bar duplicates its function.
No. No, it doesn't. The Google bar does much more than just a search box.