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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
Sorry if this is really old 
. Do you think IE is under threat from FFox?
It
is getting used more and more. And I'm more satisfied with Firefox than with IE..
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[i]Originally posted by blade[i]
It's only a matter of time before Mozilla makes an operating system that's faster, more stable, has more features than Windows and is open sourced
Linus torvald alredy has 
He just made a free kernel. But GNU/Linux is very nice
I recently installed Gentoo, and that's one hell of a distro! Go portage!
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I don't care what's the reason, it loads up faster. 
I know Microsoft is dodgy, but they already rule the OS/browser world, they have forced their ways on the world.
You know, following this logic, Firefox users actually waste their resources since they have both Firefox and IE loaded.
Only if they run Windows..
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I think a browser war thread is immature I mean they all do the same job (load internet pages). It was ment to be a question not to be made into an argument.
Yes, but some render internet pages better; it's just as normal as arguing about "Which car/tv/etc is better?" Especially since some people here use there browser multiple hours a day.
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well firefox is a small threat. in the terms of the number of home users that may change to firefox because it is easy to do. on a network it is much more difficult so a network administrator probaly wouldnt bother. and its them that firefox needs to impress. in the big scheme of things home users arent going to be able to do anything to help increase firefox usage on a big scale (as much as you might think you can).
for networks to change over firefox will have to become a lot better at being able to display all web pages. it doesnt matter if thats the browser or the sites fault. and ie would have to have some kind of big problem that would force people to change but i dont see that happening any tmie soon.
in summary, firefox does pose a threat in the home use area btu not generally.
Is it really that hard to install on a network? (I have no idea). On what basis do you think so? Maybe this will help:
http://gaugusch.at/firefox.shtml
And ehm, it's actually the home users who make the differences. Because they'll complain if they want application X which they also use at home.
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I actually think Microsoft wants firefox/opera/other browsers to over take it.
Now web browsers have just become a part of daily computing life, and most people expect browsers to be free (Legal copies of opera will be for the true elite, like me ) there is not much money to be made from creating a killer web browser, Windows Media gets money from licensing content and MSN Music etc..., but there is not much scope for making money in a web browser.
So, the more people that use alternate browser, the less attention IE and its flaws get, that means Microsoft can shift coders from working on IE, to working on other projects that can pull in more money, sure they can release the occasional update to keep the IE users happy, but apart from that they can stop major work on IE.
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