500+ Million Celebration... Firefox + FreeRice

In honor of the 500 million downloads of Firefox, we encourage you to come and celebrate with us at Free Rice http://freerice.com/

Food for thought, better yet, Food for Lives; reaching 500 million grains of rice, is a direct contribution in feeding 25,000 people for one day!

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http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/


source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm

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[fritteli]

what makes you think so? have you got any arguments?

[Dext3r1337]

No its not, i like it and have used it for 4 years...

[silvercondouloboy06]

eh... Konqueror isn't as... customizable as I want it to be (from the user-level) and there are a few things about it this annoy me personally.

[MacintechStudios]

Well, Konqueror is switching to Webkit lol. Dunno if there's a Mac version, but you can get it running in Windows and Linux.

[silvercondouloboy06]

hmmm..... exactly.

If there was a browser that was cross-platform as extendible as Firefox that used Webkit, I'd use it.

[MacintechStudios]

The one major security vulnerability in Firefox cannot be fixed unless you want to sacrifice all those extensions you love. The extension system has a big hole in security. How many times have you installed an app and included was a free "Google toolbar" extension for firefox? Well, it may not be a toolbar and a malware extension used to track your internet movements and the like. As for the speed, in virtually every area you can imagine that FF is slower. If you run benchmark tests, you'll see.

[MacintechStudios]

I like FIrefox for its extensions, though the method Mozilla chose creates major security vulnerabilities. What prevents me from using it is that Gecko is really slow at displaying web pages. I'd really love to see someone compile a version using Webkit (open source). If someone did that I'd probably start using Firefox right away as Webkit is astonishingly fast.

[silvercondouloboy06]

hmmm.... Extremely slow? In some areas yes, other areas no.

Bugs and security vulnerabilities? That may be true in the area of bugs, but Mozilla is pretty quick about security updates.

And System resources has been a huge complaint, and Mozilla is trying to make sure that is a much smaller problem in Firefox 3 (and from experience from using Firefox 3 beta 2 and 3 since December, Firefox 2.0.0.12 seems more like a Beta than Firefox 3 beta 3)

[silvercondouloboy06]

hmmmm.... I've tried most of those browsers you mentioned, and I myself prefer Firefox due to its extendability, but props to Safari and Opera for supporting standards, and props to the webkit developers to making webkit nightlies even faster than the current version of Safari.

So yeah, I like most browsers (except IE and anything thats a shell over IE), and I choose Firefox because if its extendability.

[MacintechStudios]

Preference and how good something is are not one in the same. Read my list of three things I think are bad with Firefox that I replied to Fritteli with.

[MacintechStudios]

Both? You speak as if there are only two web browsers out there. I've used all of the big ones: IE, Firefox, Netscape, AOHell, Safari, Shiira, OmniWeb, Opera, Konqueror, IceWeasel, Flock, etc. And I prefer Opera and Safari. Perhaps you should test all of the browsers available and see if any one of them appears better.

[MacintechStudios]

1) Extremely slow compared to Opera or Safari.

2) Far more bugs and security vulnerabilities than Opera and Safari.

3) Uses far more system resources than Opera (Safari uses more in Windows but less in OS X).

Those are my three biggest complaints. Sadly, the system resource issue could be fixed with a single line of code and the speed of the web browser can be fixed if Mozilla switched from Gecko to Webkit (Webkit is available on all platforms as it's open source). They just refuse to fix them.