Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

Crazzaper writes "I have been using Firefox for many years, and the war of the browsers has been around for longer than that. It just so happens that now we have a lot of options out there: IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and others. People are always talking about how one browser is going to take down another, but maybe that's not the issue at all. It seems very possible that one browser, like Firefox, can be taken down by multiple browsers at once, whether or not there was any intention to compete specifically with Firefox. I hadn't seen it this way, but I do now."

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Re:No extensions, no FF killer

[BitZtream]

Interestingly enough both Chrome and IE can and do support the extensions you speak of. IE has for ages, and of course chrome much more recently added support for extensions.

Firefox is hardly unique in its 'extensions' ability. What do you think an IE 'toolbar' is? Other than requiring C (or any langauge capable of sourcing a COM object) creating extensions for IE is rather easy.

What I still find amazing is that so many people can't browse the web with any thing other than ad block+ and noscript in firefox.

I do a lot of web browsing and I can find very few places I visit where I would notice a change. Either you guys tend to visit a lot of shady sites or you're REALLY over blowing the need for adb+ and noscript.

I'm going to assume its not the former.