Comments on: Firefox breaks IE stranglehold

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:46:49 +0000

IE is NOT essential to windows. You can totally remove it — and with it many vulnerabilities. Windows update and some features go away, to be sure… but I’m amazed that the HTML integration that IE provides hasn’t been replaced by the much faster gecko engine.

I remember a LONG time ago, someone on the Netscape team saying their ultimate goal was to replace the Windows Shell…

I for one, would welcome such a move. I’d also love to see KDE for windows, Gnome, etc, etc. Litestep, stardock, and a few others have made very little headway in the “shell replacement” market, and mostly they just co-exist with windows.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:09:17 +0000

Yes, of course more people everyday are getting IE b/c it comes on Windows. They have made it where IE is an esential part of Windows. As more and more people become aware that they need to take steps to protect thier computers from viruses they will realize as many of us have that IE is like swiss cheese, full of holes. I just decided to do a search on google. I typed in “safest browser” in my google seach box built into the FireFox browser and the first result was a review on the browsers that was saying as of right now FireFox is the safest browser avaiable. In my opinion the more people who actually care about what goes on thier computers will find out about FireFox some way.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:42:57 +0000

PC manufacturers should include a CD that contains free software like Mozilla, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, LimeWire, and other quality software. PC manufacturers and retailers would have a great value added item at very little cost.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:21:20 +0000

Yes, but that simply means that some people do not like IE, no product is universally liked.
if 2 million people download firefox a month, this figure is dwarfed by the PC sales which come preloaded with IE, so IE’s share of the market actually goes up!.
Also you have to figure in that downloading firefox does not mean keeping firefox. A better stattistic would be to analise the browser type hits to popular sites worldwide sites like google or yahoo or BBC news to find out a more acurate guage of the populaity of firefox.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:15:00 +0000

Actually the opposite is true.

Yes more people have IE, but given the fact that a growing number of them are taking the trouble to find and install another product anyway indicates a growing dissatisfaction with MS’s moribund product.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:56:37 +0000

The thing is every PC sold with a windows OS (which is 99.9999%) of them, has a copy of IE on it which wipes out the firefox download figures immediately.