Comments on: Microsoft vs. Mozilla browser usage | Firefox Nips IE Ankles Again

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 04:31:53 +0000

I was cleaning literally a hundred spyware objects off of my parents computer a week, until I installed Firefox and deleted all of the IE shortcuts that my parents used. Now AdAware regularly finds nothing, or maybe a cookie or two. I’ve already reclaimed 24 hours of my life since Thanksgiving from not cleaning up spyware.

By: syngensmyth

syngensmyth — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:03:59 +0000

I use firefox and like it, and thunderbird. I still need to use ie at times for some audio streams and such. I suppose I could make fox work with time but why.

I really like tbird. Actually eprompter is my main man for screening, then tbird if I need to actually open something.

By: Andy McNulty

Andy McNulty — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:58:28 +0000

Have you tried Portable Firefox? It lets you runs Firefox off of a USB drive, keeps all of your preferences/settings/bookmarks. It’s great for surfing on the go, far better than trying to sync bookmark files. Plus it still works with all of your extensions.

By: Robert Blanchette

Robert Blanchette — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:28:16 +0000

What I like the most about FireFox is that the font magnification actually works, unlike IE. IE is full of “features” that don’t work properly and people are getting tired of it.

By: Constant Reader

Constant Reader — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:36:11 +0000

Part of the growth is mandated change to Firefox
in corporations where they are tired of fixing
the problems of IExplorer users.
We had Firefox installed on several hundred
machines two weeks ago, but left Explorer on
with the admonition, Don’t use Explorer anymore.
But I had been using Lynx (and Opera when pictures
are needed), for years

By: Hank

Hank — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:19:37 +0000

Dvorak Uncensored is actually WHY I am using Firefox. So maybe your survey is skewed.

I tried a couple of the beta version of Firefox and had gone back to IE.

But after reading about it here, I tried 1.0 and am VERY satisfied. It’s better than IE, for sure.

Just the other day, I was doing some financial encrypted business on the Web and IE was giving me problems and the site work with Firefox!

That was a first. With the beta versions of Firefox, it was always the other way around.

Hank

By: Ed Campbell

Ed Campbell — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:25:17 +0000

One of the happiest parts of switching to a Mac [Mini] was acquiring Firefox and Thunderbird for OS X. Work like a charm. Moved my Bookmarks and Addresses over in no time at all.

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:10:15 +0000

M$ has had it too easy for so long. There was no reason to improve when they were just about the only game in town.