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FireFox Sets the World Ablaze

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hype-train-keeps-on-rolling dept.

An anonymous reader submitted a story about Blake Ross and his involvement in the Firefox project. Just the latest in a steady stream of Firefox PR pieces, although with a more human take than just the 'Firefox is a good browser' stories.

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  1. No links?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Nice article. Too bad there isn't one link to the Mozilla website.

  2. My favorite Firefox related story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoft used Firefox in a press image they sent out promoting their MSN Search.

    1. Re:My favorite Firefox related story by justsomebody · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Nothing special about that. Read article and you'll see that M$ wanted to show that their search now fully operates with other browsers. They used Oprea too, but as it was said, Opera wasn't showing some terrible success

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  3. I've read a thousand articles by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On 'linux, the new OS for the Desktop' articles in various local papers. However, I don't know any 'normal' person who has adopted it. People use what they use. I know people who still use NS4. Firefox is great and all, but you stiil have to force people to change. Otherwise, they will just use whatever browser is installed on their computer.

    1. Re:I've read a thousand articles by nwbvt · · Score: 4, Interesting
      I know my family uses Firefox. I had installed it on the main computer a few months ago when I was home, and since it has become their default browser (without me pushing it on them or anything, all I did was have a little icon on the desktop), and my dad has it installed on his laptop.

      People don't need to be forced to do anything, given a choice they will choose what they think is best. And if they choose an obsolete browser like IE 6, who cares? They are the ones who end up suffering. In fact, having them using IE keeps hackers trying to exploit IE security flaws instead of Firefox flaws (and yes, those do exist).

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  4. Firefox + putty + dynamic port fowarding by AcquaCow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and not only does the spyware stay away, but the net admins won't read your gmail ;)

    (The details: Putty now has more than just remote/local port fowarding. You can now select "dynamic" and allocate a local port. This port will then act as a local socks 4/5 proxy allowing you to encrypt/tunnel your web traffic out to another server that is preferably owned by yourself.)

    I honestly cannot live w/o Firefox at this point.

    Thank you Firefox team!

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  5. http://www.google.com/firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What the fsck is this page?

  6. First ON TOPIC post? by dkh2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a sad state of affairs when the first 4 to 6 posts on a story are lame attempts to be first, or lame attempts to flame those who tried to be first.

    Anyway, I have to give the article points for being readable and informative. It's a nice piece of PR for a browser that really does out shine much if not all of the competition. If you've read the article, good for you. If yoy haven't, you owe it to yourself to do so.

    Likewise, if you haven't already tried Firefox you owe it to yourself - even if you're using Safari on OS X. I work in a Microsoft laden department and the official recommendation is for either Firefox, or Safari.

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  7. From TFA: by hackstraw · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hackers typically attack the market giant -- Internet Explorer, in the world of Web browsing -- leaving Firefox relatively safe and sound.

    Its good to know that journalists are getting it right.

    Once Firefox takes the lead in the web client arena, I guess we will all switch to IE because Firefox would be the new target of exploits, not IE.

    Now I know that Mozilla and Firefox have not been immune to vulnerabilities, but I would bet that it is in the way they are coded and not just marketshare.

    I've heard that there is an open source web server that has more marketsare than say IIS, but does not have the same number of security issues like IIS has.

  8. Security vunerabilities by kyhwana · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So why hasn't http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vul nerabilities.html
    been updated now that 1.0 is out?

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  9. Re:He got one right by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but have you seen ASP.NET stuff? It's moved entirely away from client-side ActiveX-pushing. You can pretty much load it up in Firefox, Safari and Lynx, etc. and expect results.

    It'd be different if MS was still pushing client-side controls, but they're not. What they're pushing is a proprietary backend with a standards-based frontend. Again, they could care less about the browser wars.