witness the end of Firefox

Meanwhile there is IE8 which is way faster than IE7 was, for my work – and of course Google Chrome which is ultra fast, slim and cool – for my home enjoyment.

People who loved Firefox previously are using it now only for one purpose: still lots of extensions. Just you wait till Chrome gets more extensions,—then this goal will be closer than ever to its completion.

(No, I don’t want a world hegemony by Microsoft. I just think Firefox is shit and Chrome is much better, Opera is much better, IE8 is much better than this skeleton of a Browser.)

Wow, that’s a totally old entry. Now I won’t use anything else.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/8/3/783fb2b5-bfaf-4712-8557-952af02b1b8d/IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe

Die, Firefox, die.

Clint figures out how to think in Russian, and wastes the other bloke.

Mozilla Corp. announced yesterday that its Firefox browser had surpassed 100 million downloads since its release roughly one year ago. The company stated that the figures have exceeded expectations since the release last November.

However, despite the milestone, Firefox has lost momentum in its market share gains versus Microsoft’s Internet Explorer after initially gaining a few percentage points. In September Firefox lost another three quarters of a percentage point – its second loss in three months. The open-source browser’s market take is down from 8.71 percent in June to 7.55 percent as of the end of September.

Source: Information Week

the Mozilla Foundation-sponsored Spread Firefox marketing site is back up and running, two weeks after it was taken offline because of a second hack that may have exposed registered users’ information. (ibid.)

What can I say. Firefox’s extraordinary abilities are a hype. This is merely a browser skeleton, “same ol’” Netscape shattered to pieces, and the main piece is not too useful without numerous plug-ins which are mostly being made by third parties and as such bear almost no common style. Whereas Opera and IE are the real browsers with lots of features – and you can add plug-ins to them, too.

Recently it started to be obvious, that “Firefox is secure” mantra is rubbish, just a pretty legend… and Firefox is nothing special – once the hackers turned their attention focus to Firefox, the vulnerabilities came to light and their numbers started to rapidly increase.

So… the conclusion is… power to the real browsers, IE and Opera, and see where we end up with this competition. IE7 from Vista pre-beta 2 starts to display new shape (much less buttons, tabs, and cool interface) – and I’m excited to say, we’re probably one step closer to pushing the loudly yapping and really annoying red fox off the Earth’s face.

And I got it off the Torrent almost instantly! :)

It is, indeed, Tabbed already, supports RSS feeds, and has anti-phishing alert.

It supports the shortcuts already used by other browsers, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+LClick (new Tab), Shift+LClick (new Window), MClick on link to open it in new Tab, MClick on Tab title to Close it…

Cool history feature, instead of having one per Back AND Forward buttons, it’s separate drop-down list, where your location is marked by Checkmark. Great!

A few things could be done better, but it’s just Beta 1!
I have installed it and will try other features, not so obvious.

Let the Two remain (IE7 and Opera).

I absolutely don’t mind the really creatively and innovatively made Opera browser which has every possible function on Earth and more. Even though it doesn’t lay some sites out properly (which is why I don’t use it as main browser).

But I have developed a strong hatred towards the ubiquitous Internet scourge called Firefox, which is an attempt of once-shattered-to-smithereens Netscape to raise from dead by moving to open source and shameless pushy advertising.

• I don’t like Firefox because the initial installation provides only a skeletal browser, and the actual functions that make it usable have to be done with extensions, which don’t have any unified style in them and often stop working during upgrade—as a result, the fully-packed Firefox becomes messy and unstable to upgrades.
• I don’t like Firefox because of hordes of people who keep annoingly shouting about its ostensible “advantages”.
• I don’t like Firefox because of how shamelessly its adepts try to shove it down my throat by any means possible, often by lies and inane arguments (like “it’s tabbed” when there are lots of extensions providing this for IE6 and even full-fledged IE-based browsers as well).

So I really hope that soon-to-appear IE7 will flush Firefox back down the toilet where it came from. And let the Opera shine on scene and compete with IE7, for its real advantages.

I will start no flame wars here about this, because this is my opinion in my blog which I am fully entitled to.

IE7 is going to be so good, you won’t be able to browse the internet without it!