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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #15 on: 16 August 2005, 16:56 »
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What's wrong with the download manager? I like it just the way it is, personally.

Try the one from Opera.

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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #16 on: 16 August 2005, 18:18 »
The Firefox download manager is shit.

You loose the download in the following scenarios:
  • Restart Firefox.
  • Loss of Internet connection.
  • Power failure.
  • System crash.

A decent download manager should be able to resume a download and not loose and data under the aforementioned circumatances.

Opera's download manager is much better.
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #17 on: 16 August 2005, 18:25 »
i never use a download manager. i trust my computer, gigabyte mainboard, kingston ram etc. i trust my cable company and i trust the power company.
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #18 on: 16 August 2005, 18:28 »
but do you trust that lightning/car/truck/tank wont hit a telephone pole/powerline
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #19 on: 16 August 2005, 19:04 »
do you trust yourself?
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #20 on: 16 August 2005, 22:48 »
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I know for a fact that firefox usage is increasing very rapidly near me. Every fellow electronics employee at Staples is now using Firefox, and I stress the importance of Firefox to as many people as it would affect. I'm even getting fellow employees to spread it like i have the last 10 months.

Here at the university where I work, the tech support people have issued a directive to the oceanography department to cease and desist with use of Outlook, Outlook Express, and IE.  Firefox and Thunderbird are the replacements of choice, and just about everyone has commented on how much nicer things run.  My brother-in-law, who works at Dell, tells me that all the design engineers there use Firefox.

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Firefox will have a hard time overcoming IE if it is not bundled with the computers that people buy. Some are just too lazy to go and download the browser. I write down the website for dozens of people a day (and the regular customers usually come back for other various things, and affirm that they are using (and love) firefox), but some are even adimately opposed to not using a microsoft product. that is what scares me.

My dad recently got a couple new computers, and he asked me to set them up for him.  Well, IE and Outlook can no longer be found on them, and he has adapted to Firefox and Tbird surprisingly well, considering he is 65.  I didn't even ask, I just did it!

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(for those who are interested: Last Nov. there were few people who heard of firefox. around April/May, many have heard of it, and lately many say that they downloaded it, but just haven't used it yet. I encourage them to start using it. [this may explain the high download rate and lowering usershare])

I have had a Mozilla t-shirt for over a year now, and at the beginning, only computer geeks knew what it was - everybody else was like "Why do you have a red dinosaur on your shirt?  And what is mozilla.org?"  Now, people don't ask anymore - Mozilla and Firefox have become common names, at least among college kids.

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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #21 on: 16 August 2005, 23:06 »
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but do you trust that lightning/car/truck/tank wont hit a telephone pole/powerline

that woul;d have to be a very bad crash. i also trust the 2 foot of road that the power and cable fibres are under:thumbup:

also i think i trust myself :scared:
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #22 on: 16 August 2005, 23:12 »
Notice that i said TANK, yes onetime this dude stole a tank from an armory that he worked at and..............
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #23 on: 16 August 2005, 23:17 »
i spose a well guided tank down some of the fiarly narrow streets here would do it.
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #24 on: 16 August 2005, 23:23 »
or some guy in a tank firing off at random placed
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #25 on: 16 August 2005, 23:33 »
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The Firefox download manager is shit.

You loose the download in the following scenarios:

  • Restart Firefox.
  • Loss of Internet connection.
  • Power failure.
  • System crash.
A decent download manager should be able to resume a download and not loose and data under the aforementioned circumatances.

Opera's download manager is much better.

 
Mr X has been stressing about how good Opera is, and this is what he always said. Good job, Aloone .
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #26 on: 16 August 2005, 23:53 »
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Mr X has been stressing about how good Opera is, and this is what he always said. Good job, Aloone .


Ok, ok, we get the picture.  Now fucking drop it.

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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #27 on: 17 August 2005, 00:15 »
I don't use Opera because I don't know if it's secure or not, and the adds are annoying.
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #28 on: 17 August 2005, 01:38 »
you can allways register it the dis-honest way.
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Re: FireFox losing market share
« Reply #29 on: 17 August 2005, 03:18 »
I'm not even bothering to do that, Operas ads are annoying, I'm not willing to pay for it, and I'm not willing to obtain it illegally either.

I prefer Firefox, even if its download manager isn't the be all and end all. :rolleyes: