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Adrian Midgley wrote: | | Netscape gained 1% per week once upon a time | There is a graph here and discussion from 1999 | http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990418.html | | A question which interests me is, to what extent is it different now?
Firefox PR1, note this is a preview release and many people won't touch software before its formal release(!), managed a million downloads in 100 hours (Matt managed to exagerate this slightly).
Microsoft managing to spread FUD about IE support, they got so good at FUD they are doing it to their own products.
As a result this month will be far more interesting than the previous ones.
To be honest I don't think Firefox is a compelling upgrade for hardcore techies, with the exception of webdesigners who will probably want the "Web Developer" plugin - which does CSS editing on Firefox but not on Mozilla Navigator.
Firefox is fast, easy to use, blocks pops-up, and has tabbed browsing. It also has extensive themes which allow people to make it a pretty colours, and change the icons (people really like this in software, although I don't really get it myself).
Firefox actually reminds me of earlier browser days, which comes back to people wanting software that they can use, rather than a plethora of confusing options. However sometimes people do want those advanced options, and discovering they need to hack some hidden text file, or worse a registry, is not obviously an advance to my way of thinking. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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