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The momentum for Firefox is going to continue to carry it forward. Nothing short of a complete overhaul and some really kick butt features in the new IE is going to change that.
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No.  vdraken | 02/18/05
Yep  FilledOut | 02/18/05
Yes, and outDated as well.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/18/05
Like most people who use Firefox...  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
Our users have 1 browser, Firefox  alterego_z | 02/18/05
So what happens when...  Albion_z | 03/01/05
The only time I use IE...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
M$'s site does not need IE  ITGuy04 | 02/18/05
Really...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
Moz 1.6 does have issues but FF doesn't  htotten | 02/18/05
Moz 1.73 addressed those issues  osreinstall | 02/18/05
But Mills..  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
I HATE tabbed browsing -  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
I LOVE tabbed browsing!  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
When I have to use the mouse, I do...  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
Ctrl-TAB moves from tab to tab  ITGuy04 | 02/18/05
Simplicity is the name of the game  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
Or..  Hugh Jass | 02/18/05
That's why I love tabbed browsing  voska | 02/22/05
Just curious  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
Number one on the list...  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
I don't..  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
I did too until....  htotten | 02/18/05
There are still too many sites that require IE5 +.  Joe Blow_z | 02/18/05
What sites?  ITGuy04 | 02/18/05
here is a link  jjon2121 | 02/18/05
asp  eLurker | 02/21/05
reading  SC-man | 02/18/05
answer  tic swayback | 02/18/05
I am surprised at your trolling...  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
Oh come on....  tic swayback | 02/18/05
No, it was more in an  Confused by religion | 02/19/05
I thought it was more self-deprecating  tic swayback | 02/20/05
milly, VD is a common abbreviation for the disease, not valentine's day  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
hipparchus  SC-man | 02/22/05
Weekend?  SC-man | 02/20/05
It's funny you would mention 2 years...  rock06r | 02/22/05
So how do you protect yourself?  Taz_z | 02/18/05
Careful!  Hugh Jass | 02/18/05
How do I protect myself?  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
But are you the typical?  Joe Blow_z | 02/18/05
Like most people, I downloaded FF and never looked back.  maxo_z | 02/18/05
Like most people ?  magcomment | 02/18/05
And your basis for these claims is?  AmusedAtItAll | 02/18/05
Wow - where to begin...  Confused by religion | 02/18/05
heh  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
reasonable post  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
The answer to the rhetorical...  John Le'Brecage | 02/19/05
What shackles?  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Firefox  Nikki05 | 02/18/05
Like most people who use Firefox...  amazip | 02/19/05
Mozilla/Firefox best browsers ever.  scr33ner | 02/19/05
My Opinion Matters.  bjimenez | 02/20/05
I use FF as sole browser and I feel comfortable with it...  ManuelSchulte | 02/20/05
Not at all...  BitTwiddler | 02/20/05
Speak for yourself (only) Millsie....  Jiim_z | 02/20/05
Firefox is just as lame as Linux  jogiba@... | 02/22/05
In the end  James T. Kirk | 02/18/05
History's largest criminal monopoly...  moiety | 02/18/05
They are not the worst monopoly  osreinstall | 02/18/05
OK...largest is not the worst....  moiety | 02/18/05
Hey, you leave the govt out of this  FilledOut | 02/20/05
That's total BS  jogiba@... | 02/22/05
Hey man, check the earnings statements...  rock06r | 02/22/05
Overblown by ZDnet too  Kamakazii | 02/18/05
Well, you are wrong..  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
The slippery slope is so funny  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
Excellent point... where's the DOJ  el1jones | 02/18/05
Having lunch in the cafeteria...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Easy to overcome..  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
buncha devious chumps  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
As for Sony losing to MS  Monkey_MCSE | 02/18/05
Good point about the numbers...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Consoles...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
every xbox is lost money  maxo_z | 02/18/05
Sorry, you are wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
But not because of console sales...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
Think Microsoft was surprised?  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
They may have been surprised..  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
I find that hard to believe  voska | 02/22/05
I guess the 14 miilion power cord replacements came at a bad time then  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
As for Sony losing to MS  bae924 | 02/21/05
Liar Liar pants on fire!  rock06r | 02/22/05
calling the kettle black  Nullifidian | 02/18/05
Learn some economy man!  M.Fridholm | 02/19/05
Microsoft makes lots of cash off the browser  voska | 02/22/05
BETA?!!  Eggs Ackley_z | 02/18/05
Firefox is not a production grade browser!  B.O.F.H. | 02/18/05
Not completely..  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
Neither is IE. Netither is Windows.  ITGuy04 | 02/18/05
C'mon dude!  Jeff Spicoli | 02/18/05
Now called Microc#ap Explorer  DarkSun_z | 02/20/05
Is this bait or what...  el1jones | 02/18/05
FireFox ready. Developing for just IE short sited.  zztong | 02/18/05
I have to laugh everytime someone brings up that 90%+ myth.  LazLong | 02/18/05
And, Windows is not a production grade OS. What's your point??  DonnieBoy | 02/18/05
It's not going to work this time  Chad_z | 02/18/05
Uh huh, do you have any idea how many fools...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
Responsible corporate citizen.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
forced the company to straighten up?  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Things have changed  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Illogical wishful thinking  osreinstall | 02/18/05
IE 7 might reach 30% of Windows users  NotMSUser | 02/18/05
The real issue is  Mack DaNife | 02/18/05
Not to mention  nucrash | 02/18/05
I would imagine that MS will change their tune and offer on other platforms  DonnieBoy | 02/18/05
OS/2 was done in by monopoly, not marketing  Guy Fawkes | 02/18/05
OS/Crash did itself in....  htotten | 02/18/05
Re: OS/2 was done in by monopoly, not marketing  giltjr@... | 02/18/05
Hogwash...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
More Hogwash  WhoDaMan | 02/20/05
Microsoft wrote OS/2, IBM did not have much choice.  B.O.F.H. | 02/20/05
It price, purely  voska | 02/22/05
Poor victim IBM  seosamh_z | 02/18/05
Microsoft did not have a monopoly on GUI based OSes at the time.  DonnieBoy | 02/18/05
right product, right time?  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Not Really  osreinstall | 02/18/05
OS/2 was the Linux OS before Linux  jogiba@... | 02/21/05
Bravo!!!!  gumby830@... | 02/21/05
I ran OS/Warp once  voska | 02/22/05
since you bring OS/2 into the topic  toxicfreak | 02/21/05
Wasn't this the 1999 finding by a lower court  rock06r | 02/22/05
OS/2 was expensive, that's what did it in  voska | 02/22/05
ZDNet  IT Scion | 02/18/05
by that I mean  IT Scion | 02/18/05
They did  Mack DaNife | 02/18/05
That's exactly why i reposted under my post  IT Scion | 02/18/05
Real news  FilledOut | 02/20/05
We can do that  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 02/20/05
Thanks! (nt)  IT Scion | 02/21/05
Maybe Microsoft and Bill Gates got tired of the taste of feet  Squawkbox | 02/18/05
There might be multiple downloads, but...  BitTwiddler | 02/18/05
After the anti-trust trial...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Yes and No..  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
And think in Windows terms.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
I Agree, partially...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
No modules.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Can you explain further?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
That's building a browser on a browser.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
But more may come from it  tic swayback | 02/18/05
"No one is developing for FireFox as they might have for Netscape" er what?  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Please help  seosamh_z | 02/18/05
Part of Judge Jackson's findings of fact...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
How is MS the "gateway to the internet"  rock06r | 02/22/05
In context: users' gateway.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Microsoft Showed Nothing Because It Has NOTHING  itanalyst | 02/18/05
Wasn't DOS free to IBM?  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
re: Wasn't DOS free to IBM  giltjr@... | 02/18/05
It Was free to IBM  ITGuy04 | 02/18/05
IBM kept fixing and issuing DOS.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
What will be really interesting to see is this  James T. Kirk | 02/18/05
can see the MS spin doctoring now  net2dave | 02/18/05
Rivalry with OS/2  FirstNLastN | 02/18/05
Two possibilies from MS.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
It will be interesting to see...  Patrick Jones | 02/18/05
Sort of...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
That's correct ...  Ardian Daka | 02/18/05
Second Possibility  Loverock Davidson | 02/18/05
You can, sort of...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
Adobe Acrobat also - NT  osreinstall | 02/18/05
Short term and long term.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Yup, I agree..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
Killing the browser may kill Mozilla...  Michael Kelly | 02/18/05
Fully agree ...  Ardian Daka | 02/18/05
Windows Explorer Works The Same Way  nikoli | 02/18/05
Advantages of using Windows  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
I'm saying they could, not that they will  Michael Kelly | 02/18/05
I agree, it's not really about open source.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
Can you explain the paradigm employed?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Exactly  nikoli | 02/18/05
Quick example, shop in WMP 10  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
What's the advantage then?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
RSS and other newsreaders.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Again, it's unclear to me  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Browsers access the internet...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
It still has to be displayed somewhere  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Anton...  Michael Kelly | 02/18/05
Tic, you can display it anywhere.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/19/05
Ax, I'm not sure I see a huge advantage  tic swayback | 02/20/05
TIC, I see the advantage  voska | 02/22/05
The search function might be the key  Dave F_z | 02/18/05
A key, definitely.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
But how would you display that information?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
As Ax pointed out  Dave F_z | 02/18/05
It's sounding more and more like Shadow Google  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Re: Quick example, shop in WMP 10  none none | 02/19/05
Well, I can tell you how I might do it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
But how would you view your favorite?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
No reason it can't be rendered..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
Maybe I'm dense  tic swayback | 02/18/05
No, you aren't dense.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
Here's my question.  Linux_Developer | 02/21/05
Exactly LD  tic swayback | 02/21/05
What's a Favorite...  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
I'm not impressed with Amazon's predictive powers  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Good point about software with self-restraint.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
There's a very fine line...  tic swayback | 02/18/05
A couple things you could do  Michael Kelly | 02/18/05
Thanks Michael  tic swayback | 02/18/05
Hey guys...  rapson | 02/18/05
Good post.  Anton Philidor | 02/18/05
Emphasis on "will"  Michael Kelly | 02/18/05
Re: Hey guys...  none none | 02/19/05
Every app already has access to network/HTML  PB_z | 02/18/05
Yes and no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/19/05
Excuse me?  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
Not quite true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
How do you know?  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
As a matter of fact...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
ok, new question  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
He doesn't understand the COM/COM+/ActiveX/.NET thing!  B.O.F.H. | 02/21/05
You are ptrobubly getting too technical for him!  B.O.F.H. | 02/20/05
BOFH explain what you can do with a COM object that you can't do with a lib  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
What COM is:  B.O.F.H. | 02/21/05
when someone pastes managementspeak instead of answering  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
BOFH explain what you can do with a COM object that you can't do with a lib  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
html rendering is part of the OS already  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Firefox is excellent  tonerboy | 02/18/05
zealots aside, lets be practical...  net2dave | 02/18/05
Man are you in the wrong place. Using common sense like that.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/18/05
I saw a lack of it  voska | 02/22/05
Isn't this a little misleading?  tic swayback | 02/18/05
What does IE do better?  j.m.galvin | 02/18/05
ahem...  JoeMama_z | 02/21/05
Please explain...  Fred Fredrickson | 02/22/05
Practically speaking, IE has lost 5%, and growing.  DonnieBoy | 02/18/05
You just can't be specific, can you?  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
talk of practical then .. no detail.. typical  hipparchus2000 | 02/21/05
Now is the time for FireFox...  JoeMama_z | 02/18/05
Well here the www.Funniezinc.com stats, dont even remember seeing firefox.  gopcrepair | 02/18/05
you might want to know what to look for  Monkey_MCSE | 02/18/05
It's good, BUT...  bampcs | 02/18/05
MAXTHON IS BEST,IE ATTRACKS KEYLOGGERS BY TONNE.  VONDRASHEK@... | 02/19/05
I can hear you.  Anton Philidor | 02/19/05
"security is being over-emphasized by anti-Microsoft types"  Squawkbox | 02/19/05
Key loggers work best when caps lock on  Squawkbox | 02/19/05
According To This Site, The Stats Are WAY Off  itanalyst | 02/19/05
Bum site... They show FireFox fropping in use.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/19/05
Stats...  tero_t_vaananen@... | 02/19/05
Then don't use stats to try and prove a point.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
Not a very meaningful set of stats  tic swayback | 02/20/05
True of most stats isn't it?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
Research has shown......  Dave F_z | 02/20/05
well now..  widge_z | 02/22/05
firefox is a MUCH better browser!  justo_z | 02/19/05
Firefox is GREAT!  jimbob_z | 02/19/05
Firefox  Rstarj | 02/19/05
Silent for a reason  tero_t_vaananen@... | 02/19/05
Went back to IE  seatech1 | 02/20/05
Could you be specific?  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
Small complaint  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
We must use our browsers differently.  CobraA1 | 02/20/05
And that is why I hate IE favorites...  Patrick Jones | 02/21/05
please eplain further.....  JoeMama_z | 02/21/05
Firefox vs. IE  soetibaerchen | 02/20/05
I am getting sick of this subject...  ReFoRMaT | 02/20/05
Mercifully Off Topic  Squawkbox | 02/20/05
Firefox numbers misleading  RichardFH | 02/21/05
I've been sharing mine with 200+ users now.  frankieh | 02/21/05
Firefox is a winner!  wieken | 02/21/05
Microsoft's "XP SP2 only" is the best news yet for Firefox  Fred Fredrickson | 02/22/05
What is the problem with Netscape 7.2?  murphbil | 02/22/05
A BIG No  jtranch | 02/22/05
Facts and predictions  CypherOz | 02/23/05
IE FF  Dr_Zinj | 02/24/05

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