Thanks xStainDx for the heads up. Mozilla Firefox’s downloads has spiked after the feds issued a warning against Internet Explorer.
Wired News has reported that downloads for Mozilla Firefox has been constantly increasing after the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) issued a warning against Internet Explorer. The warning, issued on Wednesday, was also strangely backed up by an article on MSN later.
When asked for comments, Microsoft’s director of Windows client division responded:
“Microsoft certainly respects the work CERT does to help protect the Internet and users. Regarding the consideration that users switch browsers, it is unfortunate that the published articles have misrepresented CERT's suggestions, and we are working with CERT to clarify their advice”
View: For more information, see the article at Wired News
View: Mozilla Firefox Web site
Wired News has reported that downloads for Mozilla Firefox has been constantly increasing after the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) issued a warning against Internet Explorer. The warning, issued on Wednesday, was also strangely backed up by an article on MSN later.
When asked for comments, Microsoft’s director of Windows client division responded:
“Microsoft certainly respects the work CERT does to help protect the Internet and users. Regarding the consideration that users switch browsers, it is unfortunate that the published articles have misrepresented CERT's suggestions, and we are working with CERT to clarify their advice”
View: For more information, see the article at Wired News View: Mozilla Firefox Web site
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*start the flame war*
Viva la FireFox!!!
Pigs would also be flying anf it'd be snowing in hell
But, they'll just make it buggy like IE6
Yeah, maybe they can make it clearer that firefox is just plain better.
I quit using IE over 2 years ago. I've used Mozilla & Firefox just because they
are faster, and have tabbed browing along with pop up killers. Now that "the rest
of the world" starts using mozilla/firefox, wonder how long it will be til the "kiddies"
who write the garbage that exploits the holes in IE, start trying to find holes in
mozilla/firefox? Even if they find one, at least the open source group will close it
a lot quicker than MS closes holes on the IE side. The open source community
responds a lot quicker than MS. Why? not as many layers of BS you have to go
through to get something approved.......
The only thing I use IE for, is the MS update site.....
At least that's as far as I knew about 4 years ago, I guess maybe things could have changed and they religiously look for exploits and try fixing them then and there
How can you call a web browser with far less security holes, a web browser that follows the standards layed down by the W3C, a web browser which contains an extension manager in case it isnt functional enough for you, a web browser that works on most platforms and renders pages exactly the same on each platform, a web browser that isnt bloated and required by windows to run, (hopefully you're still with me), a worse browser than Internet Explorer?
Have you even taken a look at Firefox?
Before anyone else does it...
OMG HOW CUD U SAY DAT FIREFOX IS TEH LEET ALL THE HAXORS USE IT ONLY NON KEWL PPL DONT USE IT
If you are going to call something crap, at least back it up with some facts.
Hahaha! Yes!
Really, though, I can understand someone not liking Firefox, but calling it "crap" is just, well, ignorant.
kind of explains the immaturity.....
I AGREE!!!
It's the ONLY reason I won't switch.
When the whole URL is highlighted, you can't then highlight just a piece of it.
You have to click off and it's really fiddly.
You'd be surprised how much you actually do this, enough for me to find it extremely irritating.
I think this is user incompetence rather than a Firefore bug
Bug? No one said it was a bug. I simply stated my opinion as it being an annoyance (which is an opinion, and therefore cannot be wrong).
After 5 years of using Internet Explorer, I simply cannot adjust to the way Firefox handles it. I'm so used to the way IE does it that I always get impatient when it doesn't work the same in Firefox. THIS is why I don't use Firefox. I'm not as productive.
For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, look at the difference:
IE
Firefox
If you can't tell, you need an extra click in Firefox to be able to edit. Otherwise, you're just moving parts of the URL around.
Like this:
Firefox
Last edited by 48352 on 04 Jul 2004 - 13:13
Today I completely switched to Firefox (porns go Mozilla)
Last edited by 52 on 04 Jul 2004 - 05:26
Firefox is great, I love the nautipolis theme it rox, I was using the noia theme but got tired of that after awhile...still good tho
I don't know maybe I am crazy
I tried Firefox when 0.8 was lauched and didn't switch since. I still use IE though to access WindowsUpdate and sometimes to view sites that are not compatible with Firefox (not sites that Firefox is not compatible with
I'm not switching ever!
The fuss is about IE finallly getting a competitor again, that is slowly outperforming the current product. There are some small things that bother me in Firefox such as how the highlighting works and sometimes i have these little quirks.
I still like Firefox though and I use it 80-90% of the time. However some websites just work better with IE due to lazy developers... one example... java.com... funny that Sun sued MS but their site works like crap under Firefox, especially when attempting to get the java plugin.
It's the ONLY reason I won't switch.
When the whole URL is highlighted, you can't then highlight just a piece of it.
You have to click off and it's really fiddly.
You'd be surprised how much you actually do this, enough for me to find it extremely irritating.
*Shrugs shoulders*
Last edited by 15326 on 04 Jul 2004 - 08:28
Yeah Adblock needs to be installed.
Are you using nightly 39? http://adblock.mozdev.org/adblock-0.5-dev.xpi
That's NOT because they are poorly coded, but because Firefox misses many many features that IE has.
I know this by fact because we have a team of professional developers working on web apllications, and many things just can't be done with Firefox or other browsers because they lack essential features.
Are you aware you are bashing other software developers because they can't support an illegal monopoly?
At least the situation straight and us some insight.
If the market demands it enough, maybe M$ would be forced to open their standards. It sure as hell wouldn't hurt Microsoft, and good for the customers?
Get a clue before you start typing.
And don't forget the fact that more than half of Opera clients are registered as IE(They have the browser identification selection within the browser so you could select Opera to identify itself to the server as IE, Mozilla, etc).
Heck! Some of the browsers registered as Mozilla could actually be Opera