said by SRFireside :

I don't have the latest updates for FF though so I have no idea if that's the reason.

said by insomniac :

I ran across my first one the other day - the A&E TV network's Web site at »www.aetv.com/ . Funny how it crashes Firefox on my Windows XP machine but not on my Linux box...

said by munsonburger :

Hi, like FF alot, but had one problem with it. Wanted to download 2 MP3 shows with FF. Where you would normally right click "save target as", I could only download the name of the file or the url.

So, had dust off my old IE, did the same thing and was able to download the entire file. This happened on another site with success using IE, but was unable to download using FF. Am probably missing info w/r and need to learn more. Anyway, I put the IE back in its box and haven't had a problem yet.

Have a good day.

said by oliphant :

Far fewer than those who have had to download it time and time again to address FF software updates.

said by toddbs98 :

You update IE.Firefox doesn't update you have to uninstall and reinstall a new version of Firefox. Big Difference.

said by Xorro :

FF auto-update to v1.03 worked fine for me. No Un-install required.

Heard others report the update option worked, thought I'd give it a try.

said by oliphant :

Like BSODs?

said by DaDogs :

Oh... please .... and you don't have to update IE ... lol.

said by Bobb :

Most of those downloads are just people trying to get the number up!

said by Hall :

Geez, with a statement like that, you imply that your statement is FACT when it's nothing more than your opinion. How 'bout choosing your wording a bit more accurately ?

said by Bobb :

Well there obviously isn't Remotely close to fifty million users!
And I think it's obvious to most that the number is artificial!
Pretty funny really, this type of thing has been going on for a long time to make things look better or more used/accepted. This isn't like a revelation or something, old news...

said by Phil :

I don't need a number to tell me FF is better than alternative browsers. Sure, 50 million sounds a bit unrealistic, but at the end of the day it's a great browser that can only get better.

said by DaDogs :

Aye, better than that, my mom is 72 and she loves it. I installed it last fall during one of the rounds of IE Phishing exploits that we are NOT talking about in this thread.



Microsoft screwed the pooch and the door got left open to the IE corral, now all the little doggies that stayed in the pen are whining and crying 'cause there are people smart enough to look elsewhere when they discover their browser is a POS ...

Whatever, I'd say that I've DL'd maybe thirty copies of FF myself. Probably four or five are dupes or reinstalls, the rest were legit installs on real systems for people who were sick of IE and willing to try something different. Not a single one of them has complained.

If Grandma likes it, it's probably ok. What I didn't tell you was Grandma was a keypunch operator on a Univac in the late 50's. Grandma is kinda picky about the quality of her software.

said by DaDogs :

It is funny how many web sites are written to display correctly in only one browser. Usually that browser is IE,
even if IE is bugged and the code is written to take that bug into consideration.

I don't know enough about the correct rendering of HTML/XML/VRML to tell you which browser most closely sticks with the standards.

What I can tell you is that I have about same problems with IE and FF, but I feel that FF is more secure generally. So I run FF 98% of the time and I run IE when I have to run IE. Some sites just won't work with anything else, but they are usually sites that were built with Front Page.

said by Minvaren :

From mozilla.org, via /. :

quote:

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We're not counting downloads served by the Firefox update system. Neither are we counting the millions of downloads from download.com (they actually host Firefox as well) or from other download repositories. We're also not counting people who go directly to FTP without going through our "bouncer" tool (the app that directs you to the most appropriate mirror). There's lots we're not counting here. It's not meant to be a count of users. It's just a measure of how many people use our system to download Firefox.

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said by Vig :

Whoever wrote that quote that was pulled for the article summary needs to work on his skills. I nearly vomited reading that drivel.

said by oliphant :

Count me in on that list of those who after hearing of new features downloaded, installed, tried it, was hardly impressed and ultimately uninstalled it...more than once.

said by oliphant :

I also wonder if they are counting all of those times they find bugs and vulnerabilities and rather than simply releasing a patch you have to download and install a full edition again...and again...and again....and again...for every desktop you run that fadware on.

said by oliphant :

FF is WAY overrated, in no small way because sites like DSLR whore it 24-7 as being the Next Coming when FF isn't even breathing hard yet.

said by oliphant :

Now I'm sure all the FF fanboys will jumping for joy at this non-news item.

said by oliphant :

The rest of us will simply yawn and move on to the next non-news item.

said by oliphant :

Perhaps another article about FIOS installers (or not, depending on if the Ed actually bothers to read the news article before running to post it) cutting another water pipe.