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Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

Posted by Soulskill on from the bears-are-dangerous dept.

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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  1. Go get your guns? by EvilBudMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does this mean they have to stock up on rice and firearms and survival gear?

    1. Re:Go get your guns? by just_another_sean · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not necessarily but keep your gcc handy just in case!

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  2. Firefaux by T+Murphy · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should develop another browser, Firefaux, and make it appear to be the biggest threat in the browser wars. Firefox can then team up with Chrome and Opera to take down Firefaux, all the while distracting everyone from the need to take down Firefox instead. Just re-animate Firefaux as needed to keep up the distraction. No one will ever catch on to the connection between Firefox and Firefaux, and world domination will only be inevitable.

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  3. No, what needs to happen is: by abolitiontheory · · Score: 3, Funny

    Survivor 10: Internet Edition. Web-browsers battle it our in the toughest of surfing environments: hundreds of tabs, incompatible add-ons, swamps of malware, installs on wristwatches! (Spoiler: In the finale, FireFox and IE team up (gasp!) in a last ditch effort to defeat young upstarts Safari and Chrome!)

  4. Mind controlled firefox by Veramocor · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are actually working on a mind controlled version of Firefox. Unfortunately it only works if you think in Russian.

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  5. Re:Firefox lite. by mdf356 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I click on the ads that have hot chicks in tight geek-themed t-shirts.

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  6. Re:What they need... by ImprovOmega · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've spent the last year building a statistical computation software that's entirely web-based, and entirely written in javascript.

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