Comments on: The secret of Firefox’s success http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:43:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25855 Reader's Write Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:39:34 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25855 I was using Netscape 1.0 before MS ever had a browser. And before that Mosaic. Check out http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browsers6.htm for a browser timeline. What put IE on the map was that it shipped with Windows 95 in Sept , 1995. You no longer had to go out and d/l a browser (18MB) over a 28.8 modem. That is where MS got the share of the market. That and AOL bought Netscape, and screwed it up. Versions 4 .x sucked big time. That was when I first tried Opera. Now I'm firefox all the way. I was using Netscape 1.0 before MS ever had a browser. And before that Mosaic. Check out http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browsers6.htm for a browser timeline. What put IE on the map was that it shipped with Windows 95 in Sept , 1995. You no longer had to go out and d/l a browser (18MB) over a 28.8 modem. That is where MS got the share of the market. That and AOL bought Netscape, and screwed it up. Versions 4 .x sucked big time.
That was when I first tried Opera. Now I’m firefox all the way.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25700 Reader's Write Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:38:16 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25700 i am a lover of open source, i have a windows xp, and i love, i hate drm and windows vista, i use firefox, openoffice, emule, gimp. i am a lover of open source, i have a windows xp, and i love, i hate drm and windows vista, i use firefox, openoffice, emule, gimp.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25690 Reader's Write Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:45:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25690 Early in Windows history were the browser wars. Other software makers were making browsers and no one was paying attention to paid for browsers when Microsucks was offering for free. At the time there was all sorts of clamour about how Microsucks was corraling the market on the browser and limiting computer users choices. After all, who was going to pay for something that was given for free? Worse the competion was shut out because Microsucks didn't give competing software an even break. Now down the road, a page has been ripped right from Microsucks operating manual and they don't know how to respond. Once IE became the browser for everyone, the malware writers and spyware writers had a field day. They didn't have to guess what was on a computer users computer to figure out what file to attach to, everyone had the same files. A victim of its own success, Windows became and to some extent still is, that OS that everyone loves to hate. Right along with that feeling was the browser of choice offered by Microsucks. For the regular computer user, cleaning up after a day's surfing on the net means checking with scans of antivirus and spyware hunters as the cost of using Windows. Now people are rapidly getting fed up after being shown other unscruplous businesses such as the music cartels are quite willing to take advantage of those same security holes that are part and parcel of running Windows. This means for better than 90% of computer users, they are both vunerable to these sort of sneaky methods and as long as Windows remains the OS (and complimentary IE) of choice or lack of choice for computer users, these sort of things will continue to plague Microsucks. Only recently has the slumbering giant awaken to the idea that security matters to the user and if they want to continue to dominate the market they will have to address these issues or continue a long slow leakage rate of losing customers and users of their products. The adoption of Firefox by computer users shows the trend. By blog, word of mouth, or any other way of communicating on the net, people are telling other people to get away from the headaches of running one of the most insecure browsers of the computing world. By changing to Firefox returns a small measure of the surfing pleasure that has been taken away while trying to control the intrusion into their computers from those wanting to make money with drive by headace installs of all sorts of mischief. It is high time that Microsucks learns that if it is going to continue to be a dominate force in the computing world, it listens to hear its most frequent users and what they are saying loud and clear. Eliminate the headache or we will find other means. Early in Windows history were the browser wars. Other software makers were making browsers and no one was paying attention to paid for browsers when Microsucks was offering for free. At the time there was all sorts of clamour about how Microsucks was corraling the market on the browser and limiting computer users choices. After all, who was going to pay for something that was given for free? Worse the competion was shut out because Microsucks didn’t give competing software an even break.

Now down the road, a page has been ripped right from Microsucks operating manual and they don’t know how to respond. Once IE became the browser for everyone, the malware writers and spyware writers had a field day. They didn’t have to guess what was on a computer users computer to figure out what file to attach to, everyone had the same files. A victim of its own success, Windows became and to some extent still is, that OS that everyone loves to hate. Right along with that feeling was the browser of choice offered by Microsucks. For the regular computer user, cleaning up after a day’s surfing on the net means checking with scans of antivirus and spyware hunters as the cost of using Windows.

Now people are rapidly getting fed up after being shown other unscruplous businesses such as the music cartels are quite willing to take advantage of those same security holes that are part and parcel of running Windows. This means for better than 90% of computer users, they are both vunerable to these sort of sneaky methods and as long as Windows remains the OS (and complimentary IE) of choice or lack of choice for computer users, these sort of things will continue to plague Microsucks. Only recently has the slumbering giant awaken to the idea that security matters to the user and if they want to continue to dominate the market they will have to address these issues or continue a long slow leakage rate of losing customers and users of their products.

The adoption of Firefox by computer users shows the trend. By blog, word of mouth, or any other way of communicating on the net, people are telling other people to get away from the headaches of running one of the most insecure browsers of the computing world. By changing to Firefox returns a small measure of the surfing pleasure that has been taken away while trying to control the intrusion into their computers from those wanting to make money with drive by headace installs of all sorts of mischief.

It is high time that Microsucks learns that if it is going to continue to be a dominate force in the computing world, it listens to hear its most frequent users and what they are saying loud and clear. Eliminate the headache or we will find other means.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25683 Reader's Write Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:22:51 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7202#comment-25683 "They're just cashing in on an existing Net phenomenon which they've had to label. Otherwise they couldn't sell it." so true. i love it “They’re just cashing in on an existing Net phenomenon which they’ve had to label. Otherwise they couldn’t sell it.”

so true. i love it

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