Hud found this this article which is probably giving Mr. Gates a few sleepless nights.
While IE’s market share has dropped 5 percent since May to 88.9 percent, Mozilla browsers, including Firefox have grown by 5 percent.
Over 6 million copies of Firefox have been downloaded–including my own. And it is, in my oh-so-humble-opinion, far better than IE. I began using it about eight months ago, and now cannot even look at IE. Firefox has pop-up blocking along with many other features that make my browsing much easier. One of the things I really like is the tabbed browsing capability. If you do any web page development (and what blogger doesn’t want to tweak code?), there are extensions to help. In fact, there are hundreds of add-ins to use in customizing the interface to suit the way you play around with the web. They also produce Thunderbird, which is a better way of handling emails. The spam sifting is worth the change alone.
I’m a Bill Gates fan. I think he and his millionaires at Microsoft have done more to expand our ability to glean information and opinion than any other group in the world. I don’t always agree with the direction he wants things to go, however. And the internet interface is one of those areas.
You can download, install, and run Firefox without removing IE. Take a chance.
If I only had anything but a 1938 model Compaq with less than the needed resources to run Firefox I’d do it. Maybe we’ll put it on the Brides new high dollar Dell and try it out.
Comment by Wallace-Midland, Texas — November 26, 2004 @ 11:21 am
All the IT geeks I know are swearing by “Opera” as a browser interface. I like Netscape 6.5 myself.
Comment by Bubba Bo Bob Brain — November 26, 2004 @ 6:52 pm
If you use Netscape, you might like Firefox. It is built from the same kernal, but offers some customization not available in Netscape.
Comment by Bunker — November 26, 2004 @ 7:01 pm
I don’t know a thing about all that core and kernal stuf, but I use firefox and love it!
Comment by Jerry — November 26, 2004 @ 10:47 pm