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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."
Unless, the extensions I use are ported to another browser, I couldn't change from Firefox.
This will certainly interest you then: https://chrome.google.com/extensions
Adblock blocks ads that NoScript doesn't. I may want Java script to generally run on a specific website. So i would whitelist that site in NoScript. Without Adblock I would then get ads while on that site. With both I can allow scripts while still enjoying an ad-free browsing experience.
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IIRC, the project started to give people choice.
Their goal was to save the web from a standards-hurting monopoly, not necessarily be the #1 in user base.
Thanks to Mozilla, we have that now.
Firefox can die in peace, the web was saved.
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Apparently, the adblockers for chrome still download the ads, they just prevent the ad from displaying
What does "survival mode" means in this case? Race in new features?
Find new money. Before Google pulls the plug.
On my little netbook, with the short-but-wide screen, I did as somersault did and put the address bar next to the menu, but also went a step further:
Tree Style Tab
That takes your tabs, puts them on another side, (left, right, top or bottom, actually) and orders them as a tree, with the page you spawned tabs from as the main branch. Since I have widescreen monitors on everything, I set mine to be on the left. That gives me the maximum vertical space, and to be frank, I like the tree style, now that I've gotten used to it. I find it far more sensible than the default of putting them on top next to each other.
That and NoScript keep me stuck on Firefox. I won't choose another browser until I can get something as powerful and easy to use as NoScript for it. Every time I use a computer without it, it kills me. Life is so much better when you control what your browser does.
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Have you ever considered using a new profile and examining which plugins you use? Because a clean install of FF3.6 certainly won't do that.
In particular, it's a latency problem for how fast pages render, even if you're not worried about the bandwidth. Slow 3rd-party advertisement and analytics servers still hold up the whole parade with Chrome adblockers: the adblock will run after you've sat around waiting on all that junk to resolve and load. With FF AdBlock's approach, if you block those 3rd-party domains, they get chopped out before the browser even bothers to resolve their DNS.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Hey guys; remember how it was supposed to be a fast browser?
While FF has certainly gained features, it hasn't slowed down while doing so. In fact, it's seen fairly dramatic performance INCREASES. FF hasn't gotten any slower; expectations have sharply risen.
We now expect to be able to program a 3D FPS in Javascript and CSS. The very idea was considered laughable just a few years ago. I've spent the last year building a statistical computation software that's entirely web-based, and entirely written in javascript. This, too, would have been a laughable goal if not for the dramatic performance improvements in FF and Chrome. (We don't currently support IE8 because it's just too slow; hopefully IE9 will be worthy of supporting)
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Someone's even created ADM templates for you.
Though it's still not as easy as IE is with WSUS, it's not any worse than trying to keep Java, Flash & Acrobat up to date & properly configured.
I think so. When you combine it with other necessary concepts like NAT, proxies and IPv4 vs IPv6 it can get confusing pretty quickly.
"Hey dude, my IP address is 192.168.0.100 -- what's yours?"
"Well that's funny, I have the same one!"
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..