Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 20, 2006 @06:18AM from the competition-is-good-for-progress dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the continued evolution of the internet and more tools being developed or migrated online browsers are fighting to keep up. Wired has a quick look at the current status of the browser war and what different browsers are doing to try to stay ahead. From the article: 'Already, IE has seen its U.S. market share on Windows computers drop to 90 percent from 97 percent two years ago, according to tracking by WebSideStory. Firefox's share has steadily increased to 9 percent, with Opera's negligible despite its innovations. WebSideStory analyst Geoff Johnston said Firefox must continue to improve just to maintain its share. Because IE automatically ships with Windows, he said, users satisfied with IE7 may not find enough reasons to download and install Firefox when they buy a new computer.'"

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Re:Lack of Change by InsertCleverUsername · 2006-06-20 08:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Thanks for the kind remarks. I love Firefox, but I don't get paid any extra to code for it. I've got a wife and kid to support, so there's not a lot of choice in the matter.

Good luck with your GeoCities homepage.

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Re:What is the goal of FireFox? by pabster · 2006-06-20 11:46 · Score: 0, Troll

Well, you're in luck. Firefox has already been beaten by a wonderful product called Opera. Opera loads faster, renders pages faster, includes a boatload of features FF requires to be installed via 'extensions' (read: security hole inducing and resource hogging add-ons), AND is more secure. (See Secunia's advisories if you don't believe that.) Looks like it's time to kill the Fox.