Comments on: Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers

Increasing rate of downloads means the open-source browser will set the world on fire, according to the Mozilla Foundation.

[CyberWoLfman]

MY network shows it's ALREADY over 10 percent! :-)

While I'm not one of the types who do nothing but read network logs all day, I've noticed that Mozilla has surpassed the 10% mark, already, and has for a few months, now.

My site gets thousands of visitors a month, so my use of it hardly shows, in case somebody's going to try and claim my visits are having a large effect on the results.

After IE and Mozilla, there is Netscape, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror.

Mozilla's Firefox runs smoothly, and like the article said, a lot of that nasty code is written for Microsoft products. Not to mention the fact that surfing with a Web browser that's tied into your operating system is a scary thought in the first place...

If anybody would like to see more information on Mozilla Firefox and the history of Web browsers, please visit: www.cyberwolfman.com/css_web_browsers_history.htm (Not a real commercial site, and there's no ads on it.)

- CyberWoLfman

[josephrot]

Compare Firefox to My IE/Maxthon, et al

Subject line says it all. Users of all levels need clarity via comparisons of Firefox to other "lone and on top of MS comparisons" browsers like My IE2 / Maxthon, Opera, etc.

Enough already of Firefox being the best in everything and every way -- let's see comparisons and discussions based on OTHER browser alternatives too.

And if CNET would drop notice of such compares into our Email boxes of record, I would think that might be appreciated too.

[chiwawa]

Then would you want

ZD/CNet to compare all the IE addons to 100s of Firefox extensions that beat IEs by a mile or two?

Guess not.

Myself...

Myself after reading all of the Firefox stuff from Cnet it has become clear they push it because it is free. Opera is not. Also while Opera is good it isn't great. I have two major problems with Opera.

1. They don't update it often enough. Maybe once a year twice if there is a bug. This is not good enough and it is this lack of updates that is going to kill IE.

2. Opera is lacking some very basic things especially in their e-mail software. For example the address book doesn't have a field for company name. Some of the problems will small have been in Opera for years now and I am sure they have been told about them (I have told them about them) and they continue to ignore it.

Right now I don't feel Opera is worth the money. I like software that is kept up to date as we all know few things in this world move as fast as computer and internet technology. The software we use for these needs to keep up with it. Microsoft isn't doing this and Opera isn't either, though they are doing a better job than Microsoft.

Robert

[lewissalem]

Once you go tabbed...

..browsing, you wont go back. It is great! You can simply control-t a new tab or control-w to close it. So fast. Previously I had three or four windows open alt-tabbing between them. this is much better!

[David Arbogast]

Been There. Gave it up.

Tabbed browsing is not the taco on top of the combination platter, let me assure you. I have tried it, and dumped it. It is a pain. In my opinion, it is no better than revisiting the task bar every time I want to see another window.

If you want to be productive, and keep more information at your fingertips, add a monitor and go back to IE. I have 3 large high-resolution monitors and I can keep about 20 IE windows open and spread around if I want to.

Why on earth would I want to keep flipping between tabs? Isn't it just as easy to use the taskbar? And isn't it better yet to just have a bigger desktop?

Tabs schmabs.... another UI gimmick.

[chiwawa]

um, Yeah, I mean no

"(2) If a site in a tab crashes the browser (which can occur with badly-written sites), then all opened tabs get closed too. At least with multiple windows you don't have all open sites in one basket."

No, in IE when one window crashes, it not only takes Internet Explorer, it takes the whole shebang, Windows, BSOD!!!

[Jonathan]

spyware and popup makers already neutralizing FF advantage?

So I was browsing a website the other day searching for better quality cover art for my iTunes tracks and ran across a good site. Too bad I had 1 popup occur and 2 in window popups happen. I think the developers are staring to compensate for FireFox already. By the time they get to 10% the advantage may very well be gone.

[David Arbogast]

browser competition

The demands placed on browser authors are the same for all browsers. Software is a continual ongoing effort, and a large part of the value of any software package is the provider's ability to support it in the long term without overburdening IT admins with too many frequent updates.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

TBE/Multizilla

Browsing with Multizilla or TBE is much more powerful than with taskbar.