The Death of Mozilla Firefox

roddydogs

So is FF just going to dissapere, or what?

bigdave196

roddydogs wrote: »

So is FF just going to dissapere, or what?

Firefox isn't going anywhere, the OP is just full of crap

bribrian

espresso wrote: »

You can install any number of browsers that you wish and depending on how much memory you have on your machine, you could run several browsers simultaneously at the same time with lots of tabs open.

Cheers espresso, I've 8gb ram on this laptop so should be ok...
:beer: I'll give Chrome a bash now...

timefortea

GunJack wrote: »

A lot of people don't realise that Opera has loads of plug-ins available for it too

Any you would recommend? I just installed Opera and there don't seem to be as many as I'm used to (was using Firefox).

HO87

I think the OP both misunderstands and underestimates the influence and longevity of open source if they think that FF will disappear. It might shrink a little and it might lack some of the shininess but so what? At least its basically secure and not designed to hand its creators any commercially useful data it can obtain about its users.

That is the fundamental difference between FF and Chrome - a free browser created collaboratively in an open source environment and a free browser created by a monopolistic organisation that has a thorough-going interest in the minutiae of its browser users' activities. There's no such thing as a free lunch in the commercial world. Chrome users should be asking themselves what the payback is and how much more value Google will obtain from the deal than the cost of that browser?

I first used FF before it was even called that (originally found it when searching for a replacement for the execrable IE) and continue to use it in the guise of Iceweasel on my Kubuntu set up and as FF8 on Mageia - having long ago made the move to Linux. I also use Opera which I think is probably marginally faster than FF. Earlier iterations of IE were so truly carp I would not use it now even if I did run some Microsloth bloatware OS. I don't use Windoze for exactly the same reasons as I will not use Chrome. They are the productions of entirely commercial enterprises and strangely, redundancy seems to be built in there right next to instability and bloat.

QuackQuack_2

I remember reading that Linux & Unix were about to be wiped out by Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, W7......) I guess that Nostradamus didn't 'do' Information Technology.

loracan1

I loved Chrome when I first used it, intuitive, loads of features. Then it crashed, only to permanently lose all my favourites.


I now have firefox, IE and Opera, firefox is fastest, Opera the slowest (and for some reason tells me I'm off the coast of Africa)

jayme1

We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.
“Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla.
“Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come,” said Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Search, Google.
The specific terms of this commercial agreement are subject to traditional confidentiality requirements, and we’re not at liberty to disclose them.

so we are safe for 3 more years, by which time I may not even own a desktop/laptop any more and be doing all my surfing on a 'tablet' sort of device.

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search-in-firefox/

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/20/firefox-and-google-renew-revenue-agreement-stick-it-out-for-at/