The Firefox Movement Continues...

guido · Site Admin Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 381 Location: Italy

As you can see, we at yummyfood, suggest you to download and use Mozilla Firefox: this is an interesting article from CNET.

The Firefox Movement Continues...

Last month, Firefox, my Internet browser of choice, had officially launched its version 1.0 to much relief for many users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), full of security flaws that made surfing the Net for information and doing business at best a risky proposition. Six weeks and about 13 million downloads later, experts believe Firefox is showing undeniable momentum. However, does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft's monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web?

According to one European survey, it does. IE's marketshare dropped under than 90 percent mark (88.5) during the third week in November, a 5 percent dip compared to estimates six months ago.

The major problem experts say that could prevent Firefox from growing beyond early-adopters like me: The ongoing tendency of Web authors to code their sites to work with IE. Despite the existence of Web standards, examples abound on the Web of sites and applications that don't work well with Firefox or other non-IE browsers.

To attack the compatibility problem, the non-profit Mozilla Foundation that created Firefox plans to hire new staff to ferret out IE-only sites and advocate standards-based coding methods to their authors. For most people like you and me, however, that should be much of a problem. Mozilla regularly tests the 1,700 most trafficked Web sites and performs side-by-side comparisons of how they work in IE and Firefox. The group's data shows Firefox is 98 PERCENT COMPATIBLE with the Web content on those sites. That's up from 75 percent four years ago, according to the foundation.

So, if you haven't downloaded the Firefox browser yet, what are you waiting for? To avoid the needless pain and stress viruses can have on your PCs and you, I strongly recommend downloading Firefox and try it out.

CNET News December 24, 2004

Get the WEB back. Support the standards. Get Firefox.
Guido
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Pie · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

Guido~
Thanks for the Firefox info both here and at Guido's Web. Wink

I downloaded firefox and, well, it works okay but not all web pages support Mozilla. I have to bounce back to Explorer for some of the auto-play features needed to view web pages and the plug in's are not always available for Firefox or, after downloading, don't work. As well, there seem to be some problems with firefox getting along with other software but I'm not exaclty sure what just yet. I constantly get error messages
(MSG or MME problems if I remember correctly) and now I can't stay logged into yahoo when AVG updates and runs or I get a ypager/MSG error and have to reboot....didin't start doing that until I loaded Firefox.

I'm ALL for using a non-microsoft product and totally support Firefox. I'm just wondering if anyone else has the same instability? Maybe I ought to copy this over to Guido's web, eh?

Ciao Bello!
DonaBella Donna (AKA Pie)

guido · Site Admin Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 381 Location: Italy

Hi there Pie,
I agree with you for some sites not correctly displayed with firefox, but i dont have any problem without other software installed on my PC.
You can sure post also at guido's, but my advice is to go thru the Mozilla help forum at www.mozilla.org
take note of the errors that occurs, and post a message on their forum.
they guys are nice and usually reply pretty fast..
Ciao, guido
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