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What makes Firefox so popular? Its not the features, speed, or anything like that. Other browsers do those things very well too. cough Opera cough So what makes Firefox more popular? I have to say its not some silly reason that very few people care about (i.e. open source). The reason is that Firefox has a very nice community that makes it popular. Lets just hope that its the friendly cake-getting I have an awesome experience I want to share with you too community and not the trollish MS bashing retards that you see all too often around Firefox releases like this one.

Popular in my book because of one word: extensions.

I love it for one simple reason: it works! I can get to where I want to go easily, without the freezes and cryptic errors given by other browsers. I have no particular loyalty to any of the browsers; I just want one that works quickly and error-free and Firefox does that best.

1st off Opera and IE blow. they flat out suck. every single feature they have you can get in firefox through add-ons. its customizability that makes firefox the superior browser. you can customize it to your taste and your needs like no other browser out there (minus the firefox clones like flock). opera and ie have 0 customizability what you see is what you get and thats boring (and the opera widgets are gay). also every time ive used opera it sucks when there are a lot of images on a page, its speed is only good through flat text based pages. opera will always be 3rd banana. because 1) it isnt customizable and 2) it doesnt offer enough to make people switch from ie to opera. face it firefox could be the least secure browser on the planet and it would still outdo opera and thats what opera and its fans need to accept. opera will never beat firefox or ie, EVER.

DeadlyAssassin said:

>1st off Opera and IE blow. they flat out suck. every single feature they have you can get in firefox through add-ons.
You yourself say this. That means the fired fox browser isnt much without addons. And what matters is the core browser , not the addons.

>opera and ie have 0 customizability
Customizabiltiy is one feature that opera mostly banks upon , it just shows that you dont have much info about opera.

>also every time ive used opera it sucks when there are a lot of images on a page, its speed is only good through flat text based pages. opera will always be 3rd banana.

Go and search for some standard browser tests. If you find them , test on your own and see which loads what faster.

listen mr i know everything but dont try anything until others try out 1st. customizable means to make it whatever you want not just be able to just certain settings. clearly opera isnt as customizeable or it could add a simple thing like roboform but no it cant even handle roboform. it speaks about privacy and safety yet your cant install roboform? which is safer then storing passwords on your browser.



opera people preach yet they will have to accept they will always be 3rd banana and nothing they can say or do will ever change it, firefox converts other users to firefox opera takes whats left. btw why would a browser need to start out with a lot of features when it can have any feature any other browser has and more? why would i wanna be forced with things that i may not want yet cant add to it vs a basic browser which i can make work like opera and ie combined and more if i chose? that wasnt a smart statement. you basically are saying its best to be forced with certain things vs choosing your own. im sure you follow what every article in mags have to say. im almost willing to bet you havent tried one product without someone else recommending it 1st. i used opera before you and before mentioned in pcworld, i used firefox also before being mentioned in pcworld. im a trend setter, you and pcworld are trend followers. know the difference.

DeadlyAssassin said:

hey hey , plz . Tell me one thing, where did i say anything about forcing anything on anyone. None of my comments in above post mentioed any bad thing about fired fox . If you are making anything with yourself i cant do much in that.

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FYI , as far as articles in magazines are concerned , there is a approx. 25:1 ratio for firefox articles to opera articles. If i would be using what mags recommend , then i would have been using firefox. This is also clear by the browser popularity . FF has about 15% users and Opera has about 0.7% , so i dont think i m following any trend. If 0.7% is trend to you , then you are a bit poor with maths.Those people who know me here know that i m amongst the first ones to try the betas and post my views on that. If you thnk i havent tried even a single product , then you are wrong in this also.

>i used opera before you and before mentioned in pcworld, i used firefox also before being mentioned in pcworld. im a trend setter, you and pcworld are trend followers. know the difference.

yes , you may have used opera before i had but again where did pcworld come between this. You are always getting to only point - i used before pcworld mentioned , i am a trend setter , i dont copy , all others copy. Stop behaving like a kid plz.

I agree on the fact that FF is much better than IE , no problems with that. But i really dont like that some people say wrong things about other browsers and that too without having complete and correct information.

you have no right to talk about anything when i use products before you and never stop using them. thats like me telling bill gates how to run microsoft (although he's stepping down). sure you know more about a product u have used for a lesser period of time. if anyone is the kid its the one who uses a product for a shorter period of time yet thinks he knows more then the one who has used it for the longer period of time. you know less about these products not more and then want to save face by calling me a kid? thats funny as hell and laughable on so many levels.

So you are the one who believes in quantity , rifght ? You are using a thing for longer means you know more , right ?
Have a look at you previous posts and all the comments in your browser blog. What one statement you will find common ? Just have a look yourself. Repeating only one thing - isnt this what the kids do ?

Since you are more concerned about arguing over other things rather than browsers , i would prefer to stay away from this topic .
My only point in the beginning was that bashing something is the easiest task to do. Providing wrong information about opera is what i didnt like. But i dont think that would make any difference to you. You use what you like , i use what i like .

have a nice day .

i have a suggestion. dont start an argument wiht people without seeing it through to the end. no youd prefer saying what you want then leave when the discussion doesnt seem to favor you anymore.

I m well aware of the forum rules and i dont want to go against them . If you think i m running away , then its your choice , you win. All praise mr. deadly assassin coz he is superior .
plz dont reply again to this if its off topic.

right like ill do as you say. i dont care about rules. who actually reads all the rules and follows rules to a tee except people who have nothing better to do?

Those who want to stay members.

Alright everyone. Let's scale this back a moment and regroup. Please focus any future posts on the article, Firefox 3 Hits 17.3 Million Downloads.

sorry i dont worry about trivial things. besides anyone can make a new account and still come back. they can only ban your current account, it doesnt mean you cant get a new email and use a dif area code to come back


and sorry to the last person who posted, im just sick of people who act like they know it all just cause theyve used a product. specially when they used it for less time then the other their arguing with.



anyways back to the topic firefox is over 25 million downloads now

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To try and bring everything full circle, I personally only use Firefox. I use Internet Explorer on a very rare basis and I have not tried any of the other browsers. For me, Firefox just feels better. However, the fact is that everyone has a choice. I can choose to use Firefox or I can choose to use any other browser at my disposal. The fact that Firefox 3 has hit 25 million downloads is a testament to both the marketing of the new browser and the browser itself.

I say marketing because the better the marketing blitz, the more people will become curious about the hype. Only time will tell if Firefox 3 lives up to its predecessor. For me, it does just fine.

anyone who wastes time watching over how everyone acts, needs a life. anyone who gets offended by what others say online, needs a life. words online are only hurtful to those who take life seriously and thats their problem. seriously does anyone think i care if someone calls me a name? anyone who worries about what others say and do online needs a life plain and simple. and those who actually take time moderating every post, needs to leave the internet world and step into reality once in awhile.



my prob with ie is it seems to have all the spyware cookies. whenever i use it and then use spyware doctor, i find like 20 types of adware cookies each time. when i use firefox i rarely find any and i actually believe firefox 3.0 final release is worse than firefox 3.0rc3. ive been trying the 3.0 ever since alpha and i will move onto firefox 3.1 alpha when it becomes compat with roboform. i prefer testing new products while everyone else is jumping on board the current.