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Interesting results from those that uninstalled Firefox...

From: https://survey.mozilla.com/results Reason for uninstalling Total Plugin compatibility (Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, etc.) 1123 Performance (load delays, memory usage) 1767 Hard to use/confusing (menus, display, etc.) 572 Missing features 986 Security 322 Some features didn't work...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-10-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software, Windows
Firefox wanted speed and stability -- instead they got Adobe

Firefox users beware: Adobe has opened the source code of the ActionScript Virtual Machine, the high-performance ECMAScript implementation used in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player. Adobe has made the source code available under three prominent open source licenses, and contributed it to Mozilla for eventual...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-07-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source
This is a crazy way to look at a security vuln

PCWorld Australia has this article posted: Mozilla pledges to fix second minor Firefox 2.0 bug This is a vuln, after all — NOT a “minor” bug. And, read how the first paragraph is laid out: A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-03-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Security
First Firefox 2.0 Vuln reported

A newly discovered vulnerability, which the CTO of security services firm Secunia described this morning as affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, can also affect not only IE6 but Firefox versions 1.5 and 2.0, as observed by BetaNews in our own tests. Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-30-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? Are users better avoiding it and waiting until a future build? Are too many of the new features buggy and incomplete and is the browser overall more unstable that previous versions? What about Firefox on Vista? Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-30-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
Double-clicking on the address in the Address bar produces nothing

I use this function quite a bit in IE, for either copying an address or selecting the entire field so I can enter a new address. When you double-click on the address in the IE Address field, the complete address is selected — this is similar to any function in Windows (i.e., Windows itself, MS...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-27-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
3 days -- about 10 add-ons, and Firefox is working the way I want it to

OK…what does a busy person do, who wants to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 and have it work the way they want? They download and install the new version one free night, and then spend the rest of the time, grasping for more free time just to download and install Firefox add-ons. Why is it? It seems that...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-27-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
Speed - Firefox versus IE7

I’m really impressed. It appears that the Firefox folks have spent a lot of time fixing the speed problems that plagued Firefox in the past. Firefox is still about a second and a half behind IE7 for loading web sites, but that’s nominal. Firefox used to lag about 3–4 seconds (sometimes...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-24-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
YouOS -- your computer anywhere

YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform. Access from anywhere. Create a document at an office computer, drive home, continue right from where you left off. Built-in sharing. Instantly share music, documents and more with your buddies. An application community. Everyone from professional...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-04-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source
Mozilla Squashes Bugs

The Mozilla Corporation has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that fix a number of critical security flaws in the open-source products. The Firefox update, which was in the process of being automatically delivered to Firefox 1.5 users Friday, addresses 12 security...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-04-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Patch Management, Security

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