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Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost
Barence writes in with a data point on Firefox 3 adoption: it's been available for 10 days, and already one site is seeing 55% of its Firefox-using visitors on version 3. "Microsoft still has three out of ten people running an old version of its browser more than 18 months after Internet Explorer 7 launched, while Firefox has converted more than half of its users to the latest version in just over a week. That should set a few alarm bells ringing in Redmond."
The majority of people who THINK about what browser they use, use something other than IE. Firefox 3 is obviously a great leap forward for the Mozilla brand, and...well, there you go.
Yup, and you can see that when people who bought the Eee PC ask you how to go to the Internet... of course Xandros has an icon properly named "The Internet" which is Firefox.
Everything is fine until they want to copy some text from the web page and paste it to a document (simliarly to what you can do with IE6 and Word) without losing the format... Eso no se puede my dear. And the deal is broken :P
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Site actually has some pretty interesting content, like this vid.
True... because not one of those provides me with useful functionality. If they did, I'd be using them.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
> one site is seeing 55% of its Firefox-using visitors
One site? Big f***ing deal. Does anyone give a sh*t about some obscure UK PC magazine? And the next line compares the usage of IE7 vs. older versions of itself against Firefox 3.0 vs. itself. What kind of cack-handed contortion of a statistic is that? If Firefox were an MS product, and IE were OSS, this would be reported as evidence that IE achieved stability long ago and that users were desperate to get to Firefox 3.0 because of the persistent bugs seen in previous versions.
Does anyone with an IQ of higher than 17, and without an ax the size of an elephant to grind, work on these stories?
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
I have one, it's called "ignoring ads, and them not bothering me as a result".
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I've never had that problem. I'm guessing your computer is slow? Although I suppose mine could be overly fast.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
I just ignore ads, and do so with ease. I never understood the need for an addon to do it
Gen MacArthur just ignored gunfire too - leading him to believe he could ignore elected officials - and automobile traffic.
Opinions are wonderful and mysterious things. And no, I'm not trolling.
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I don't really consider a few seconds per page load to really enrich my life much. I mean, at best, we're talking like 10 minutes or something I added to my day (broken into chunks so small as to not be of actual value). That doesn't really have any appeal to me, but that's just me.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Huh? How the hell are any of these innovation? Let's go down the list.
Standards compliance: they're conforming to a standard, whoop-de-do. In any case, something that makes web developers' lives easier doesn't qualify as innovation to you and me, we're end users, not developers.
More flexible (I assume you mean add-ons): this was innovation in version 1. It isn't innovation any more.
Awesome bar: Haven't used it, but it doesn't sound like a very good innovation to me. I'll give you this one, though.
Runs javascript faster: Huh? In the first place, I have never noticed a problem with IE's script execution. In the second place, doing the same thing, only faster, isn't innovation either.
Isn't integrated with Windows: Correction of a stupid thing Microsoft did also is not innovation. If you leave your ice cream out in the sun, I'm not innovating by taking it inside.
Runs on Linux: Cross-platform compatibility is, by no stretch of the imagination, innovative. Apps do this all the freaking time.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Well, then I guess either my computer is stupidly overpowered (possible, I built it for gaming), or something else is going on, because I notice no lag in IE7's interface. I also use Firefox occasionally (I can't get Flash to work in IE7 and am too lazy to troubleshoot it), and notice no improvements over IE7 in terms of speed. I simply can't agree with your experience.
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Uh... if you're going to sites with malicious ads, you're doing it wrong. The first step in Internet security is to avoid the sites which try to attack you.
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Actually, it's www.pcpro.co.uk (TFA's site)
Now that this has been posted on /. I can only assume those numbers for ffx3 are going to be inflated.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
Well, I'm not a developer. I'm a user (at least as far as web pages are concerned), and when I speak of "innovation", I speak in terms of innovations from the point of view of a user (as do most people, I might add). Saying "If you were a developer you'd see the innovation" is not valid. The innovation may be there for developers, but if it isn't innovative for users, then the innovation is pretty empty, since only a small percentage of their customers are happy with their "innovation".
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I agree, but it also must be noted that upgrading ffx2 --> ffx3 is much easier to upgrade than IE6 --> IE7. Also, slow adoption of IE7 is obviously a by-product of slow Vista adoption. And then there's the fact that Firefox is cross-platform...
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
Uh... not at all. People upgrade IE all the time, and you could probably get a lot of people to join you in shouting that IE hasn't had any innovation in ages. Upgrading your browser version doesn't mean you aren't using that browser due to inertia.
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I like debating with people. I do it all the time, in real life as well as on the interwebs. That isn't trolling. Trolling would be if I were deliberately distorting facts, or making inflammatory statements just to rile people up, even though I didn't believe them. Sure, I can't prove that I'm not trolling, but it speaks rather poorly of you that you just assume someone is trolling because you don't like their opinion.
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