25 Million Firefox Users

/me is browsing this page in Firefox and it's rock !

Fuck IE, had nothing but problems with my computer using IE. it's been 6 months now and not had 1 issue with firefox

Seems like IE7 will be more secure:

Internet Explorer 7 Announced

It may be simply an idea whose time has come. It may be that Firefox
is making enough noise to raise some eyebrows in Redmond. Either
way, it looks like IE7 is on its way.

Today at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Bill Gates
announced plans for a new version of the world's most widely used
Internet browser. Experimental versions of Internet Explorer 7 are
expected to be ready for testing as early as this summer. The new
and improved IE is apparently being developed with security being
tops on the priority list. Measures to help users avoid ?Phishing'
scams, spyware and viruses are expected to addressed in full as
Gates pointed out that Microsoft has dedicated nearly $2 billion of
it's annual research and development budget on security.

While Internet Explorer still holds in excess of 90% of the browser
market share, the new Firefox browser continues to gain popularity
largely from veteran surfers seeking a higher level of security.
Some statistics show Firefox with as much as 5% of the browser
market. While 5% may be a far cry from IE's 90%, it represents one
of the strongest showings from a non IE browser in the past 10
years or so.

IE 7 To Address Security Issues

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the upcoming update of their web
browser, Internet Explorer, which will be updated to 7.

Promising better security, IE 7 looks to address the number of
vulnerabilities contained by older versions of the browser. The new
version is expected to more effectively combat spyware, malware,
and phishing attacks.

According to Microsoft, "[Bill] Gates announced Internet Explorer
7.0, designed to add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2
while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility
that customers have come to expect. Internet Explorer 7.0 will
also provide even stronger defenses against phishing, malicious
software and spyware."

Expect IE 7 to arrive in beta testing format this summer."

25 Million and one!

I'm liking it so far

And I am one of them

I had no idea the number of downloads equal the number of users.

im used with opera,

firefox is a good browser but Interent explorer dominates over the interent...

That is great. Now figure out a way to gain from it.

No shit I've downloaded FireFox I rarely use it. Mostly because it loads pages slower than molasses in January.

Yeah, the 25 million downloads figure is suspect... Over the last 5 years I've probably downloaded various mozilla varients a few hundred times.

You got it. Most people just dont know better.

Haven't tried it. I've been a hardcore IE user since being online. I'm not tech savvy at all and it's difficult for me to change software/browsers I'm used to.

That said, I've never really had any problems with IE. I have my anti-virus and firewalls installed and have never had problems as a result of IE vulnerabilities.

But competition is good and I hope FF or the others continue on to branch out.

GREAT POST!!! SO FUCKING TRUE



firefox is for idiots who dont know what they are doing

die already

Thanks for this. It'll certainly help speed along interface work for some of the stuff I'm doing.

Why all the hate about firefox? Did a moz developer kill your grandmother or something?

awesome, I hope they release a new version soon, not there is anyting wrong with the current one, but hopefully they'll add in some cool new features...

"One step above a common surfer" means not using shit tools like IE just because they came installed with your OS.

So you like firefox, why dont ya take the next step and try O P E R A !!!!!!!!.
You will be pleasently suprised !
Firefox is so fuckin slow, even with the tweaks (allthough faster than "you know what")

Well maybe I don't thnk IE is shit. MAYBE I don't have problems with IE, MAYBE I have anti-virus, anti-spyware a firewall and I stay away from russian aniamal porn sites.

WHY should I switch to a browser that is SLOWER and more of pain in the ass for me to use? WHY? because it's the "cool" browser now? Or the browser of "rebels". Take the "fight the power" crap elsewhere.

From a security perspective, the main problems with IE is activeX, the fact that IE is tied into the windows kernel, and thus that you can't ever remove it. From a web developer perspective, you have the non-standard html rendering problem. Ask the tech support in any large isp or corp what their number one problem is, they will tell you it is spyware - made possible by IE and your corporate overlords in redmond. All the IE lovers in this thread are just showing how technically illiterate they are, and that they are not fit to be administering their own systems.

just wanted to point this out again

Damn that is very impressive.

You show how arrogant you are. You aren't even good enough to be dog crap on the bottom of my shoe FUCKTARD. Illiterate. Hey when you can actually get into Mensa maybe we'll do a IQ measuring contest. Ok Einstein?

Move over bacon ... now theres somethin meatier....

Firefox just stopped a celeb site from installing some funking app on my PC.

post the site so I can see if I get it on my PC I'm using IE.