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Comment on Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Released by Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:03:09 +0000

Thanks for your correction, Morbus.

Comment on Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Released by Morbus

Morbus — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:02:07 +0000

Minor correcting, this IS a release candidate, so it IS a final version. Or at least it could be. If no bugs are found, it’s repackaged and released as the final version.

This is as good as it’s gonna get.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Dan Webster

Dan Webster — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:45:09 +0000

You people are high! Firefox is the biggest, fattest piece of bloated shit browser that’s out there. The thing crashes when I look at it cross-eyed. I use Safari and only launch Firefox when I’m forced to. The Firefox engineers are insane, they like adding and removing features between builds, so they can’t be trusted to release a consistent product. I think it’s great that children and retarded adults have a browser but the rest of us, the adults, need something that’s not going to explode every 5 minutes.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by net ranger

net ranger — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:41 +0000

you must be joking.

little headlines like this crap won’t make me change to any one
of the hundreds of sorry browsers.

for me… it’s firefox now & forever!!

FIREFOX ROCKS!!!

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Bernardo

Bernardo — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:42:46 +0000

Eh, I don’t see why they should have a problem with it - but then, I’ve seen tons of people make a lot out of nothing.
I see this as a great opportunity for many people, and I think that anyone who just labels this as spyware should think about it before they open their mouths crying about it.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Morbus

Morbus — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:27:42 +0000

Also, Mark, you are mistaken.

Firefox is way better than Opera, ONLY because of his extensions. You can find NO BROWSER with as many features, useful features at that, as firefox. FTP client, mail client, image uploader, file upload, GOOD adblocking, flashblocking, cookie management, javascript management, awesome bookmarking, awesome history search, awesome quick search, password manager and login manager, download manager and accelerator, DOM inspector, loads of options and customization switches and whatnot, notes, social features (meebo, igoogle, stumble upon, footyfox, whatever), form manager, WEBPAGE CUSTOMIZATION (yeah, that’s right, stylish and greasemonkey), irc client, automatic spell checking, BETTER tab experience (due to the loads of options you have to customize your browser behavior to your will), tons of web developer features, ie tab, locationbar2 (a wonderful extension, as well as menu editor), rightclick dictionary and translator, tinyurl link detection (prevents phishing), smart language manager, screenshot manager, embedded media download… And more, much more. All inside the fastest and lightest browser around? How exactly is poor buggy opera better than that?

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Morbus

Morbus — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:19:08 +0000

Also, I think you all should remember that Firefox 2, despite being a relatively old and outdated software already (in comparison to Firefox 3), despite all its flaws (mainly it’s memory usage) is and has been gaining market-share for the last half year. Even though it has received no update for its features, and even though it’s slower and heavier than its most direct competition (Opera and Safari). So, if you ask me, when Firefox 3 comes out next month, Fx’s market-share will go sky-high, data-sharing or not. I have no doubts.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Morbus

Morbus — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:16:11 +0000

As has been said before, the loss of market-share is a non-issue. Mozilla has their hands full as it is, and they’re probably more than happy to loose those customers that know very little or nothing at all about the development process. Because it doesn’t really matter. Mozilla wants users that know what they use and why they use it. They said they don’t [i]want[/i] to have many users, they just want them to be good users. And people that “betray” them at the first sign of trouble, those aren’t good users.

All in all: good riddance.

We want a good browser, not a browser that many people have. Of course we want people to enjoy good things, and also the fact that many use firefox contributes to the number of extensions available, but what really matters is how good the browser is.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by Mark

Mark — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:48:04 +0000

Anyone still using Firefox, when then are free and much better browsers like Opera around are pretty dumb anyway.

Comment on Will Firefox Lose Its Users? by myname

myname — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:16:47 +0000

Ok! Sorry for sounding rude,
I apparently misunderstood, but the comment is still easily read as if the statistics shows a fall caused by FF tracking. I can see now that it can be interpreted differently.