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Old 11-28-2004, 11:18 AM   #41 (permalink)
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I didn't give FF much of a chance... I installed it on a secondary computer and was greatly annoyed by all the features. Hell... they were good ideas. I can see how it's better than IE, but I've used IE so long that I'm used to its shortcomings and am annoyed by FF.
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Old 11-29-2004, 06:38 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Whats so great about Firefox that makes it worth the effort of learning new software and so on when Ive been using IE for years now
Well, rather than repeat myself, take a quick read of the Firefox 5 Minute Challenge.
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Old 11-29-2004, 07:13 AM   #43 (permalink)
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I dont understand the speed issue.....I switched awhile back and now use it on 4 different computers because its faster than IE6..I've never had a problem with anything working AND the tabbed browsing is great!!

Right now I've got one IE window open here at work (for testing purposes) and I've got one Firefox with 5 tabs open and being utilized (including for TFP) and its using 41,408

I have to say I wasnt prepared to love FF as much as I do.....I will not use IE again unless I have to.
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Old 11-29-2004, 09:08 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Let's look at the numbers

I suppose the word "threat" might be a bit strong, but if you think in terms of creeping loss of market share, that's easier to define. Check out the statistics below regarding browser market share that is compiled by one of my favourite sites for this kind of data:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Browser Statistics Month by Month
2004 IE 6 IE 5 O 7 Moz NN 3 NN 4 NN 7
November 68.5% 5.0% 2.2% 19.3% 0.2% 0.2% 1.2%
October 69.5% 5.7% 2.2% 17.5% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
September 69.6% 6.2% 2.3% 16.9% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
August 70.3% 7.0% 2.3% 15.5% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4%

Please note the O 7 is opera. NN is Netscrape (talk about shrinking share!) and Moz is Mozilla/Firefox.

Sorry about the formatting, it's the best I could do in the simple editor for posting. Of note is that Moz increased by almost 2% just in November, the month that FF 1.0 was officially released, and it is still increasing if you look at number of downloads occurring.

I think that Micro$oft is lilkely looking down the barrel of a gun, they're just not sure if it's loaded. But with Linux also gaining ground on the desktop (now approaching 4% of all deaktops, and no IE for Linux (EVER!), M$ could find this shrinking market share compelling.

Just my $.02 worth.

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Old 11-30-2004, 12:12 PM   #45 (permalink)
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