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Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla 1.8 Beta 1 has been released, and in addition to numerous bug fixes now includes ECMAScript for XML (E4X). Mozilla 1.8 will serve as the code basis for Firefox 1.1. In other Mozilla related news, WebSideStory saw Firefox's usage growth slow down to just 15% (Jan-Feb) from 22% (Dec-Jan) making Firefox's 10% marketshare goal for 2005 potentially more challenging. Their stats also saw Internet Explorer usage drop below 90% for the first time in many years."
Well, by God, it's Microsoft Anti-Spyware's fault!
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Wow, is your sister available?
Its because some people dont like to think their stupid and dont know what theyre doing, and the more you point out to them that you know vastly more - the more theyll stick their heads in the sand. Let them be sypwared and laugh from your open source throne.
Microsoft windows usage up to 110%.
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Them: "This site doesn't look right in this new thingy. How to I open it in the windows one?".
Me: (lying at this point) "That probably means there is a virus at that site!!! You don't want to go there."
Them: "But I used to go here all the time!"
Me: "That's why your computer was so fucked."
Them: "Oh. Well let's say my bank didn't work right with this one.. then how would I open it in windows?"
Me: "*click*"
Karma: -2147483648 (Mostly affected by integer overflow)
Firefox is a relatively small download but some people (think of older folks) just don't like to install software that way. Some entrepreneur should put together the Windows versions of Firefox, OpenOffice, and maybe Cygwin on a CD and sell it through CompUSA and Best Buy for $12. Maybe they could get work out a deal with LavaSoft to include Ad-Aware.
1) "IE is the official browser. It's MS, like Windows. They're made for each other. MS is a Real Company, even if it's a borderline-evil Real Company and geeks make fun of it. I'm not sure some freebie could be as trustworthy or solid."
2) "My Computer isn't me, it's not an extension of my brain. I may use it to talk to friends, to work, to be creative, to do research, to have fun - but the computer itself (the OS, the hardware) is still boring and confusing. It's a foreign country -- when in Rome..."
3) "My Computer IS an extension of my brain! I resent being told what to run on it."
4) "I like to keep it simple. I know there are replacements for everything. I've got better things to do than learn about features I may never even use."
5) "I've got Norton."
6) "I can't really tell the difference between decent software and malware. Why is the decent software so invisible and why do its websites look so simple and its instructions so complicated? Why isn't it advertised like Comet Cursor?"
7) "Computers are weird. They crash once (or twice or five times) a day and pop up incomprehensible errors. It's a law of nature. It's annoying, but not as annoying as understanding the reasons is boring and complicated."
Though I don't know if that fits "your" IE users. But when I think about "mine", those are some of the ideas that spring to mind. Sometimes I almost think they have a point, so I shut up until they ask me for help. Which almost never happens, for reasons that might look like the ones above.
Ever offered to set it up for them, import their bookmarks, install Flash and Adblock and perhaps that "View this page in IE" extension - so they can see for themselves? Though you didn't make them sound like they needed a helping hand.