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Posted in technology

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  • macbros
    Ditto to what mel said
  • mel
    Can't IE just go away? I mean, with so many web developers bitching about it, you would think the ...
 

Jul 7
2010

Posted by richard

Ok it’s not here yet, exactly, but it’s on the way.

You can download the new beta version and read about all the new goodies in the release notes. But the real question that I thought the Independent missed on was, or rather what they glossed over quickly, if Microsoft didn’t have a stranglehold on the PC market, would IE be the market leader?

Surely, with something like 31% of the market, Firefox has a good grip on things. Like most people, most journalists, most newspapers, the Independent in that article simply forgot the fact that the “most popular” (it coined Firefox as the “second” most popular) browser has been losing market share for years now…

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  • richard
    So it's definately worth it? I tried getting to the site last night but it was constantly busy, so I thought ...
  • MrCorey
    Since Ubuntu Hardy Heron shipped with FF3, I've been using it daily since Beta 4. Its got a lot ...
 

Jun 17
2008

Posted by richard

… and I can’t open the website (one of them at least: mozilla.org) to get it, I get this: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

I’m sure they are being simply overwhelmed – FireFox is of course one of the best coded browsers available, and is rapidly eating into the IE share of the browser market. I hope that version 3 is as good or better than version 2 has been.

I’ll keep on trying to get it tonight though, add to the record number of downloads that MSNBC is reporting this will achieve.

Update: (18th June) Ok so I finally downloaded FireFox 3. First impressions as pretty much as Corey mentioned – the menu bar thing is a bit annoying and a tad slow. Also, it seems to have (strangely) altered the order in which they appeared from FF2.

Nice layout although little changed. The folders that I have on my main toolbar at the top don’t seem to respond as fast as they did in FF2.

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