Comments on: Firefox reaches a 25% market share

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:22:51 +0000

The best thing Asif is to try it yourself — its a small light install and would help you ease into whatever choice you feel fit.

From my usage of Firefox:

1- Much better performance management — one window that’s stuck / taking a long time has no bearing on other windows in terms of response.

2- One crash does crash all the other windows — but you’ll love the “restore session” feature. Just open the fox again and all the windows come back exactly like they were.

3- Not enough to be a distraction. Plus, firefox simply says “Do you want to install it now, or when you close the browser”. The install-at-close is completely non-intrusive because it installs in the background and the updates are ready next time you start.

4- Not that I know of, but why would you want it?

5- This is probably the key differentiator — firefox has a huge plugin library; not just toolbars but many many customizations. Try it yourself.

For the rest of you: That, ladies and gentleman was an example of citizen marketing. Firefox never paid me to endorse them.

By: Muhammad Asif Razzaque

Muhammad Asif Razzaque — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:30:37 +0000

Need to make a decision. Anyone with experiences on the following:

1. How load-bearing (performance consistency) is the Foxy browser in terms of multiple instances of opened windows?

2. Also like in IE sometimes if one windows hangs and is shut down all other IE windows are gone with that. Does FF treat it any different?

3. Frequency of service pack download prompts?

4. Integration with relevant MS Ofice applications?

5. Integration with 3rd party toolbar applications?

By: Basit

Basit — Wed, 30 May 2007 11:10:36 +0000

Well, the features I like the most are

1. Tabbed Browsing (that IE gives now)
2. Restore Session if system hangs or power goes off
3. Video extension, that lets me reap all the youtube vidoes
4. Integration with Flashget to get the downloads rolling in
5. Less of virus/malware developers attack it, so i can go more places

The list is never ending, so i leave the rest for the next person posting in

By: Qazi

Qazi — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:50:33 +0000

i also love fire fox. with all those extensions you can do wonder with your browsing. also the best part is i feel a lot safe while using fire fox

By: Ammar

Ammar — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:40:57 +0000

I shifted to Firefox due to features and features alone, though most of these are now part of IE7 but I have not shifted back to IE and no plans of doing so in future until unless it gives me the features not present in Firefox.

The features include which made me switch from IE6
were:

1-)Tabbed windows.
2-)City weather add on at the status bar.
3-)Auto spell check.
4-)Different search engines (imdb,wiki,google,answers etc) without having to install ANNOYING tool bars eating away the precious space at the top of the page.
5-)Dictionary on context menu.