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Mozilla Foundation Seeking Switch Success Stories
maggeth writes "mozillaZine has a story about how the Mozilla Foundation is looking to know if any organizations have switched to Mozilla products. Is your organization among them?" Can anyone point out an example of a library system switching? Lots of public libraries use PCs set up as kiosks running a web interface to their catalogs, and they all seem to use IE -- so, no tabbed browsing.
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Sites like (safe proof-of-concept)this can exploit and bother IE users, but FireFox protects me!
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Success stories? Hey, just grab anyone who switched to Mozilla and you'll have a success story: No more pop-ups, tabbed browsing, hardly anyone targeting your browser for attack. Ah, the sweet smell of success!
I've tried to switch multiple times and I still cannot stand Mozilla's UI at all. I don't use plain-vanilla IE either (I use the browser wrapper Maxthon (used to be called MyIE2)) but what I do use makes Mozilla's UI look pathetic.Frankly the Mozilla project needs to take a serious look at the UI and improve it. If a member of the /. crowd (who remembers using Netscape when it was called Mozilla the first time before IE came around) can't stand the UI, how can we expect your average joe to? How can we honestly expect business, libraries or anyone else to switch?
Make Mozailla's UI at least as good as IE and the browser wrappers out there for it (I really recommend Maxthon) and THEN you'll have tons of success stories. Until then Mozilla's going to be the province of the highly technical users who don't mind the UI.
And no this isn't meant to be a troll or flamebait. Too many people are happy to expouse "switch to Mozilla it's great and more secure" without considering that a lot of people think Mozilla's a step down. We really need folks to work on the UI and improve it. I'd like to see it improved myself so I can finally stand to switch.
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Mozilla has come a long way since it stomped its way into the Open Source realm. It was awarded "Best of 2003" in the Web browser category by PC World magazine.
you mean "seeking any evidence at all that someone has had success with their software" :)
Am I the only one who thinks OSS shouldnt keep trying to encourage people to put all their money on software which is not yet as good as its closed-source competition?
If your key selling point is "it's open-source", you arent getting anywhere. Wait until you have some really great software instead of (basically) misleading people so that they'll be stuck with your software installed on all their systems and will send bug reports and other feedback because it's easier than re-installing everything again. It's dishonest.
There is some great software out there. Mozilla software is potentially mere months away from joining its ranks. Why start building a history of distrust?
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Finally nearly all websites work perfectly under IE as opposed to maybe 10% working under Mozilla. I urge all of you to try out IE and give it a shot. Thanks.
I hope you're joking. But if you're not, maybe you should consider printing this out and showing it to whoever makes the decisions there?
I like / want tabbed browsing for libraries because when searching for books, usually an initial phase of the search will get me to a list of books that might match, sometimes a long list.
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With tabs, I can clickaclickaclicka load them up and then look at each entry separately. (So, when searching from home on my own computer, it's great
At the machines at the library itself, though, they use a different interface (wish they wouldn't), and kiosk / IE machines -- never mind tabs, you can't even start new browser instances, so you have to pursue each possibility on the list one at a time, click, then read, then click Back to try the next one.
That's why
standards compliance and reasonable security are great, but I might even prefer IE to Mozilla if the which-has-tabs situation were reversed. Well, and if IE ran on Linux without bothersome add-on software.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
What about the reduced productivity and the lost money because of the linux problems and the shadey feature. It will be hard to keep up with Microsoft once all the innovation kicks in from Microsoft. It would be hard to switch later, and you probably going to cost your company a lot of money because of this mistake. You may end up paying money to SCO also.
You stupid moderator groupthink lemming cunts.
Innerestin'. I'm not pro-taxes, but I like tax money spent on libraries more than on some things ;)
Next time I'm in Austin, I'd like to check it out.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I have seen so many bullshit said for mac users, but I have never seen an idiot claiming that mac users are geek. Hehehe. They are so dumb that Apple is fearing to ship their computers with a two button mouse because their users are not as smart as windows users. Mac users are usually from lazy stupid sections, like web design, graphics design. Apple like to tell them creative people, but usually they are quite lazy doing nothing but checking out colors, pictures, browsing the web. That's one of the real reasons why they are also quite insecure and need constant reminders that they are not dumb. Unfortunately slashdot and other sites prove that they are actually pretty dumb.
Did your penis extension business fare any better? Or how about your bro's in Nigeria? How has the switch been for them? (from a mass mail perspective)
People claim up and down about how Mozilla is awesome and is never privy to the same assaults as MS, but when Mozilla becomes popular, where will you be then? The next "best thing." Same goes with any other product for that matter. Obscurity is Mozilla's best defense. It's only a matter of time before an attack hits them. I see many features of Mozilla quite pleasant, but many that's just "candy." Furthermore, Mozilla's memory leak from hell will always keep me from it, as well as it's double the memory usage. Granted I have a Gig of memory, I like to use apps that actually are designed for performance.
there != their
Are you going to write a sequel now about loose != lose?
I hope to spend a few days (or at least one) in Austin in September. If schedule allows, I hope to drop by.
Tim
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5