Firefox has it a future?

drim3r

Agree with your opinion. In fact, more competition is better for everybody. I hate how people still surf with ie6, and if you delete ie icon they think there's no internet :S Firefox is better for me 'cause has a lot of extensions. And it has the community support. I think Firefox has a good future.

And i noticed that there's a beta from Prisma. An add-on/stand-alone application that turns web sites into desktop windows, has hit a 1.0 release, promising to let you monitor and launch sites like Gmail from your Mac dock or Windows tray. It's a good copy from an Opera gadget. It's good that Mozilla copy best features from others browsers. For this:

- I think if Mozilla could rebuild it javascript engine for a light work, could be so better than chrome.
- And independent process for every tab like Chrome. In fact sometimes (almost never but there's a pair of times) when Firefox crashed caused by a web visited and i lost my downloads and i have to reopen Firefox and start with the download again. It is a bad experience.

ynotdu

So this is all excellent news. Competition! I find google's dominance just a little disconcerting.(part of a post by croo)


Hi croo,as i said in a previous post i totally agree that google dont know when to stop.

I downloaded windows 7RC,made a bootable cd and am running it now.

The good news for Firefox is the RC(so far so good,I did not need a clean installation,just the upgrade version as that is possible if overwriting Vista,Yayyyyyyyyyyy no problems with drivers,all hardware still working!)

back on topic windows7RC only supports IE8 or Firefox(no mention of Chrome etc)

So may,be microsoft agree that google are looking for world dominance!

something microsoft would not dream of!:)

croo

oscarBravo wrote: »

It would really, really help if Adobe finally bothered to release a 64-bit Flash binary for Linux.

Well I got a new notebook so decided to install 64bits ... and so far so good. re: the 64bit flash for FF I followed the following link
http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/install-64-bit-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-904/
to painlessly install 64bit flash .. just thought I'd pass that on!

oscarBravo

Nice one, croo - that seems to be working perfectly. I'll be curious to see how it compares on stability.

Pygmalion

ynotdu wrote: »

when I got my first computer,I installed wubi/ubuntu based on linux,what appealed to me was no partition was needed for ubuntu(a south african guy who went as a space tourist to the space station funded it as a free OS for the 100$ laptop for the 3rd world,that never materialised)

Wrong, Ubuntu was around long before the OLPC project, and AFAIK was never intended to be the operating system of it.

Also I do think Firefox has a future, for one Google never seemed that interested in making a Linux/Mac port of it, they seem to have just promised to port it after people complained about it, these ports were always very far behind and lacking in features, and I doubt Google will do any more than needed to keep people from bitching too much.
So Firefox will always be the browser of choice for these OSes. (Opera is pretty good too for all OSes, but it doesn't have as much extensions or as good an extension system, and many distros don't offer up to date packages, or any at all in some cases, in addition to simply not being preferred by many)