Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Firefox: Mission Accomplished
>>
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>> | When the folks from Mozilla prepared to launch their open-source
>> | Firefox 1.0 browser two years ago, their hope was to gain enough
>> | market share to compel Web sites to adopt open standards--rather
>> | than standardizing on Microsoft's proprietary Internet Explorer
>> | browser technology. Job done. Firefox has anywhere from a 10% to
>> | 18% worldwide market share among browser users, depending who is
>> | counting, and almost every Web site that matters makes it possible
>> | for Firefox users to fully access their pages. The turning point
>> | came earlier this year when banks and financial services outfits
>> | including American Express and Fidelity switched over. Now, with
>> | the impending arrival of the Firefox 2.0 browser, you can expect
>> | Firefox to gain even more share and make it even more difficult
>> | for Microsoft to call the shots, technology-wise, on the Web.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/10/firefox_mission.html
>>
>> Firefox is important for the same reason ODF is important. Both open a
>> lot of doors for Linux users...
>
> I've been an avid supporter of FireFox - but, to be honest 2.0 doesn't
> excite me at all. I actually like IE7 better. I'm still waiting to
> see how the security thing pans out with IE7. MS has done a pretty
> good job with IIS6, so I'm hoping that IE7 will come out pretty well.
> In fact, at this point that is the only thing that will drive me back
> to FF on windows (though, until I know, I still force my family to use
> FF :)
>
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> Tom Shelton
>
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