2 posts tagged “firefox”

    I hate Internet Explorer. I always have, before I used firefox, I used netscape, never IE. With firefox dominating the "geek" community, why hasn't it spread out into the rest of the "not-geek" world? There are only 2 major reasons.

1. It is bundled. If IE wasn't bundled with Windows, I think that Netscape would still be the main browser. IE7 is nothing more than the crapware that is usually bundled with Windows.

2. People don't know any better. Why do people still use AOL? Because they don't know there is something better. Same with IE. If other users would just use Firefox then we would be better off. There are several reasons for this. First of all there would be less viruses/botnets. Firefox is way more secure and the "non-geek" internet users are the ones who are most likely to have botnet software and viruses. If these were cut off at the source then the self-replicating viruses would have a harder time getting from computer to computer.

What can we do about this?
Just spread firefox. The less people that use IE the better off everyone else is.

    It's a Firefox based browser. It calls it self the 'Social Browser'. Its called Flock. Is it that great? Mostly.

    The browser is very stable and has a decent user base. Its corporate end has had a few stumbles with people leaving and replacing its top execs. The browser it self is good because of its support for CSS, JavaScript. The stuff that powers Web 2.0. Well IE has always had mediocre support and Firefox better support. In comparison the Flock browser is great. But does it really matter? Most Web 2.0 sites are designed to work with Firefox in the first place...