The Firefox Phenomenon

Oh dear, perhaps you can actually get the name of the think you're talking about correct. It's "Firefox"; there's no CamelCase.

Firefox is vastly superior to IE in every way. Don't forget their e-mail client Thunderbird which is vastly superior to Outlook in every way. Mozilla is the best company on the Web.

D'oh-- sorry about the camel! we're a small team and we try to move fast...sometimes a little too fast. fixing now.

Name of the "think"?

The cleanest and simplest solution to the browsing and emailing. hats off to the Mozilla team. Thank you so much.

Why do you say F is much better than IE7. I dont see the difference

mcomg: it's important to note that a lot of IE7 was done in response to firefox's market share gains. a lot of the innovations, like tabbed browsing, belonged to firefox.

This interviewer is terrible. She talks way too much. It's not about you girl, get over yourself.

love ff

Mozilla, Godzilla, KingKong...it's all too much playfull to be taken as serious as 'Internet Explorer', which seems to stem from the Space Shuttle-program. Just kidding; the whole internet-thing started sometime around '76 inside the military, and since never really renewed itself, just expanded. Software to work with old rubbish has gotta be sub-optimal by definition. Firefox, though, to my opinion, is the first that is up-to-the future. I speak from 32 years of co-designing and selling business-software. About Sarah: wish we had such well-educated, pleasant and gorgeous Finance-presenters here in Holland!

I love it. Never switching back!

7PM EST The cleanest and simplest solution to the browsing and emailing. hats off to the Mozilla team. Thank you so much.

wow, nothing like ask a question - space out - ask a question. Maybe yahoo should have real technical people interview that might not be as pretty but actually understand the content. Since when was the web closed? Web 2.0 (bah what a joke) I'd like to see the cringe from John when she says that. Any of those "groupies" could have done a better job. No mention of standards compliance, innovation, or exclusion of languages like MS Active-X which is how your viruses get through IE (of course you don't see a difference), or how things will improve with FF3 this year. (many of the reasons why Firefox has done so well) Firefox is made by developers for developers. Let's all jump on the band wagon of Google vs MS. burned again by tech ticker

I have been using Firefox to get on the internet because I feel it is much more secure than MSFT Explorer.

What is unfortunate is you can't uninstall MSIE (e.g. Active-X). So MS forces every Windows user to run their PC is a higher risk posture that they would otherwise need to because of it.

Simply the best

In your first question you asked how Firefox succeeded were Opera and Safari failed. The Mozilla representative did a good job of listing the particular strengths of Firefox, but when you compare it to the 5 % of Safari you have to keep in mind that Safari for Windows was released just a few months ago and is still in Beta. The Safari market share is basically the Mac market share. Most Mac user rely on Safari. This was not the case a few years ago, when the Internet Explorer 5 was the dominant Mac browser. After Safari 1.0 was released in 2003, Microsoft pulled out of the Mac browser market, so in that respect Safari indeed succeeded in beating the Internet Explorer (on the Mac). Safari for Windows has seen a mixed reception so far, but as it matures it will snag off another few % from the IE, and this will probably help Firefox more than hurt it, because its audience is different from Apple's audience and together they will make an even stronger case for choice and standards in the browser market. Opera will probably not grow market share on the desktop. It has few unique selling points. Even though it has been around much longer than both Safari and Firefox, it was always hampered by a complicated interface and, until 2005, by the fact that it was not available for free. It holds, however, strong market shares in Scandinavia, Middle and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. When you look into the mobile space, which will be the growth area of the coming years, Opera and Safari are arguably more successful than Firefox. As far as I know, there is still no mobile Firefox available, while Opera runs on hundreds of phones as well as the Nintendo DS and Wii and while Safari (or the underlying technology WebKit) is the browser of choice for smartphones not just from Apple, but also market leader Nokia and other players.

i love fartfox, so much cleaner and stabler than m$'s internet exploder... hehe the revenge of nutscrape!

I like firefox; but in business life a large number of sites still do not support it.

I have to agree with you all, but after experiencing a major glitch with Firefox, I had to move on to Opera. The interface is fairly similar, but with a grand exception of Oper's Speed Dial function. I may use Opera, but I believe that Firefox is one of the best browsers out there.