Comments on: One Year and 100 Million Downloads Later, Firefox

By: kris

kris — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:50:56 +0000

Thanks jpatterson for your comment, i do know about that option, but best of both worlds would be to have an additional button to close all tabs, so you only click on that when you are sure, but if you click the normal one by mistake then you get the warning. Does it make sense to you? It does to me.

By: nemanja_nq

nemanja_nq — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:52:57 +0000

FF & web developer toobar = rules !

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:03:19 +0000

opera loads faster i suppose but not when we are talking about TABLEs for example.

the forums here on sitepoint are one example - the page loads in quick but the browser is playing catch up building up the page which in my view is ugly.

on the other hand, firefox et al are slightly slower - in a few seconds more than opera - but the page is there for you, there is no catch up.

it is a lot worse in opera with dial up btw…

By: Fenrir2

Fenrir2 — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:41:14 +0000

Firefox has many cool features, but I use Opera because it loads much faster. I still miss the web developer toobar however…

By: csi95

csi95 — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:03:41 +0000

100 million downloads is nice, but the real indication of how much of an impact Firefox has had is that Microsoft is working on IE 7.

One year ago, IE was dead. Version 6 was it — deal with it. Bugs? Code around them. Missing features? Too bad. Slow performance? Get a faster ISP.

Now suddenly IE is undergoing major changes — playing catch up.

Thanks Firefox! No matter which browser ultimately “wins”, we can hopefully look back and say that you made all of our lives better.

By: jpatterson

jpatterson — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:11:15 +0000

I definately agree, Firefox is by far the best browser for Windows, and deserves to take over much of Internet Explorer’s market share!

Kris, if you don’t want to see the confirmation messages every time you close multiple tabs, just go to Tools -> Options -> Tabs and deselect “Warn when closing multiple tabs”. Hope that helps?

By: Dr Livingston

Dr Livingston — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:38:42 +0000

lets hope microsoft are watching the download meter increase ever more at the same rate of knots ;)

if this isn’t a frightening prospect for microsoft then i don’t know what is… if anything the number of downloads in such a small time frame speaks volumes.

are microsoft asking why firefox has took off i wonder?

By: kris

kris — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:06:55 +0000

Something cool to be added to firefox is a fouth button on the top right coner for closing all tabs at once, instead of getting the confirmation box.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:56:45 +0000

As Chris said it’s hands down the best browser for the moment, only Opera 8 comes near but personally i think opera is a little too bulky and overwhelming. The 1.5 release of firefox is alot faster too. Thumbs up ff, onward to the 2 year celebration and 50% marketshare :)

By: kris

kris — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:31:08 +0000

I support firfox and try to use it as much as possbble, but i hope they will reduce it’s start up time, it takes too long!