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Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads
Samhain138 writes "It seems like Firefox has finally reached 10 million downloads, just a bit over a month after Firefox 1.0 was released. Congratulations!" My favorite extensions (not all of which worked when 1.0 first came out) are all working happily now, too; the latest nightly has been working flawlessly for me all of today.
yeah
Who gives a shit
This is the beginning of the Linux communist revolution, lets all join in and kiss the feet of our leader Linus Torvadles.
yeah buttons bevelled like they were designed in the middle-ages is really everyone's idea of features.
.ini files and install it using some obscure python engine version 0.2x.
/. and people here would like to see a childish pun like "it's an id10t error."
The rest of the feature are all their scotty. Just go to the root folder and type up all your preferences in the
Have you ever even looked at all the features available in OE? Maybe you should..... errr.... use Outlook Express (better yet use Outlook) just to give it a go. And please don't tell me you actually clicked on something that patty in HR sent you. 'Coz that would really not be Outlook's fault. It's a user error. Wait this is
It's nice to be able to launch something from your email viewer. You shouldn't necessarily have to dump it to disk just to look at it.
I like the download manager in FireFox though. Otherwise all Firefox developers are so smart that in their attempt to ftp the latest Mozilla code and compile it with a Firefox splash screen, they didn't have time to code in many useful features.
I downloaded it and it still Bus-errored on certain sites so I deleted it and went back to Opera. Who cares how many people downloaded it. What you care about is how many people are _using_ it.
(I submitted PR's in the past, they didn't get fixed, I moved on)
Now try going the other way. Develop a CCS based look for your website. Use IE during development. Occassionally check it in Opera. Make sure you're right there on w3c website checking up on the meaning of attributes. Not what you think they should mean. Use all of this to develop the website. Make sure you check your results in Opera here and there.
Done? When it looks really pretty, use netscape. Now go use Firefox. Makes you wake up. The morons can't even change the code that they downloaded let alone actually fix the bug. Mozilla renderers actually don't know how to do pixel counts. When things are supposed to be padded, the mozilla based browsers actually increase the size of the actual container. When you set the container (DIV or whatever) and you pad the contents by a certain amount you expect the container to remain the size you set it to because otherwise it's going to make the overall design of your page look like a bunch of netscape developers were try to make a personal webpage.
Just because you made it work in FireFox doesn't mean it complies. With all due respect to all developers and to all browsers, I have, from personal experience, found out that IE is the most CSS compliant of all browsers available.
Plus I like the fact that MS doesn't invent new crap and start pushing it as a standard in their browser. They've learned to submit their ideas (no matter how crazy) to the appropriate committee first and then upon approval have it included in their browser or product.
Oh did I say something nice about an MS product? Ducking in T-minus 5......
Netcraft just replied back with the news:
It is official, Netcraft confirms: Internet Explorer is DYING
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Internet Explorer community when IDC confirmed that the Internet Explorer user base has dropped yet again, now down to less than 60 percent of all browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Internet Explorer has lost more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Internet Explorer is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Browser Usability Polls.
You don't need to be Miss Cleo to predict Internet Explorer's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Internet Explorer faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Internet Explorer because Internet Explorer is dying. Things are looking very bad for Internet Explorer. As many of us are already aware, Internet Explorer continues to lose it's users. Worms and malware come and go just like the flu.
Internet Explorer for Macintosh is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Internet Explorer for Mac developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Internet Explorer for Macintosh is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Internet Explorer leader states that there are 300 million users of Internet Explorer. How many users of Internet Explorer for Macintosh are there? Let's see. The number of Internet Explorer for Windows versus Internet Explorer for Macintosh posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1000 to 1. Therefore there are about 300,000,000/100 = 300,000 IE for Macintosh users. Internet Explorer on Wine on Linux posts on Usenet are about 5 percent of the volume of IE for Macintosh posts. Therefore there are about 15,000 users of Internet Explorer on Wine on Linux. Therefore there are (300,000,000 + 300,000 + 15,000) = 300,315,000 Internet Explorer users. This is consistent with the number of Internet Explorer Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, Internet Explorer was discontinued and was taken over by AOL who uses Internet Explorer in their browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Internet Explorer has steadily declined in users. Internet Explorer is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Internet Explorer is to survive at all it will be among clueless lusers. Internet Explorer continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Internet Explorer is dead.
Fact: Internet Explorer is dying
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I know I have a bad impression of TB.
Perhaps the first rule for promoting Thunderbird should be... Don't Call Thunderbird "TB"!
Laws are for people with no friends.
Currently, IE loads faster than firefox. Visually it displays pages faster. I think the main issue here is common sense when it comes to adware, spyware, popups. I use IE when I use windows, and I never get adware or spyware. I'm tired of firefox fanboys constantly saying firefox is the best... I don't think there is a best yet. Firefox has its flaws.
If you don't want popups, adware, spyware, use a real browser like lynx.