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| Firefox 1.0 |
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| jannah |
| 12/23/04 at 11:20:13 |
| [slm] wow very impressed... its like blazing fast!!! FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share Remember those days back in 1995, when Netscape Navigator was synonymous with internet? That was the time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer entered the market for a head-on collision with the Netscape Navigator. That was Browser War –I. Now the battle was reignited by the fire of FireFox, internet browser of Mozilla. This is the beginning of the Browser War –II. And it appears that this time Microsoft is losing it. Internet Explorer is rapidly losing market share. OneStat.com a company in Amsterdam had conducted a worldwide survey in late November. The survey shows that Internet Explorer's share dropped to less than 89 percent, 5 percentage points less than in May. FireFox now has almost 5 percent of the market, and it is growing. Net surfers are opting for FireFox to Internet Explorer due to security concerns. FireFox offers much more security from worms and viruses than IE. FireFox 1.0 was released for free on the web on Nov. 9. Within just one month 10 million copies of the browser were downloaded. It is an open source software which improves with time as bug-reporter and bug-fixer community grows. Mozilla’s President Mitchell Baker is optimistic that FireFox will grab 10 percent market share and Mozilla's many technology parts will become an increasingly important application development platform. She says that “the product is so nice that people love it when they try it. It is innovative and has new features, it makes the Web a more enjoyable experience, it makes people more comfortable, and it's fast. It's a set of things you would want in a browser if you sat down and really thought about it.” She added that people rarely realize that the quality your web experience is determined to a large extent by the kind of browser you use. Firefox gives them that wonderful browsing enjoyment. Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of product management for Windows on the other hand feels that people will stick with IE when they consider all the things that made them to opt for IE in the first place. He said that Microsoft is developing a new version of browser but one will have to wait till 2006. Schare said that Microsoft goes to people and gets there feedback on what they want and what they don’t want in a product. It is not so easy to satisfy absolutely everyone. To us however somehow the diminishing share of IE from the market says something else. It says that nowadays costumers have a new way of giving a feedback. They just switch to someone else. |
| Re: Firefox 1.0 |
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| Mona |
| 12/24/04 at 23:30:35 |
| [slm] yep, it is great. i converted! and i didn't need to worry about bookmarks and cookies, the prog imported them from ie (upon my permission of course). anything but microsoft is good enuf for me. wassalam Mona |
| How To Speed Up Firefox on Broadband |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 12/26/04 at 02:10:53 |
AsalamAlayKum, Peace and e-Greetings be upon you. Go find the SLOWEST loading webpage you know of, open it in firefox, then in another tab or window do the following: How To Speed Up Firefox on Broadband Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type 'about:config' into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set 'network.http.pipelining' to 'true' Set 'network.http.proxy.pipelining' to 'true' Set 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests' to 8. This means it will make 8 requests at once. (Beyond 8 makes no difference) 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now! (Re)load that SLOWEST webpage I suggested you do at the top of this post. Call 911. No you didn't have a heart attack. It really is that fast. |
| 12/26/04 at 14:19:22 |
| SuperHiMY |
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