Firefox gained over 10%* market share worldwide, achieved in just over a year.

"A thriving community for Firefox marketing that parallels the growth of the Mozilla developer community."

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I still don't get why people use Internet Explorer. Oh wait, because it comes with Windows. Have any of you tried IE7?

MS is trying to gain my respect back with IE7, i must admit is quite a facelift for IE. Almost as dramatic as the lift they gave to Windows ME/98/2000 when they released Windows XP.
It is quite remenisent of FireFox, and I am completely exceited about the jump in it's popularity as a FF user.
The phishing filter in IE7 is quite a nice touch, combined with the tabbing feature, and available add-ons (hmmm couldn't use extensions eh MS?) it is much better than it ever has.... that aside, there are still issues. the stop button is incredibly small, but atleast it works now. Plus the quick links are kind of annoyingly large with very little customization.
I will not be switching to IE after an official release of IE7, not that i need one, but they are definatly on the ladder to proving themselves with me once again

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Most people I know (who are computer-minded) talk about Firefox and although the name sounds spicier than IE, I just can't be bothered to learn about it and get the lowdown. I never even think about IE problems -I have always found it tobe just fine when I use the net. What problems are there anyway? Or rather, what is one reason for me to get into Firefox?

FireFox is great, I just find it a lot better than IE and I can see why it is gaining quite a large chunk of the market share. It is a lot more customisable than IE and a lot more flexible, tabbed browsing, plug-ins etc.

You can find some interesting reasons here, though searching through Google you'll find a lot more.

chrysalis, though this is included in IE7, don't you have having multiple windows of IE filling your taskbar? Tabs are one of the most amazing things, I'm so used to them.

Firefox is a great browser no doubt, the thing that counts most (according to me anyways) is it's user community. People who use Firefox the most seem to be developers and so on. And with it's extension capability the developers can make extensions to make lives easier. So basically what I mean to say is that Firefox is going to have more features (extensions, if not in built) compared to other browsers. So naturally people are going to use it more and more as they get to know about it.

Oh yeah and let's not forget about the people who own Mac's as well... since they aren't' going to have IE 7, they are most likely going to pick Firefox (because Camino doesn't have extensions and Safari isn't compatible with many sites)...

And with FireFox 2.0 coming soon, I think the people who use Firefox are going to increase a lot, since it is probably going to have the capability of IE 7 and more.

And the just-concluded Firefox Extensions contest may just be the first step towards doing that. See http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/

The Reveal and Showcase are indeed jaw-dropping extensions!!! Try em out and you'll never go back to IE.

And to think this are just first-gen extensions. What more stuff can come out of the community once a full-pledged XUL IDE comes out!

One thing that Firefox team should also do is to create a Firefox SDK, that not only includes a XUL IDE, but an easy way to create Firefox Skins. The skinning system is already in place, but a WYSYWIG way to do it would further bolster adoption.

Its not only eye-candy, but a WYSYWIG skin editor will allow corporate IT environments to come up with their own internal distros. For example, disable Check for Update to check the Mozilla site and instead check their internal version. Some other customizations like predefined internal links, bundled extensions, a secured Extensions Manager, etc. etc.

The Firefox SDK along the lines of Visual Studio user-friendliness will also make it easier to convert corporate IT folks who are used to the visual environment.

Sure, I get multiple windows filling my taskbar with IE, but it rarely gets to the problematic stage. I never have more than five or six windows open at once anyway. But Firefox is customizable? HOW customizable? The only IE icons I use are Back, Forward, Stop, Reload, and Home. Can I customize to get rid of all others?

fire fox is really a good choice over IE6 I haven't tried IE 7 but I find Mozilla too much better than IE6 , Before firefox i always had problems in running my ASP and JSP files on IE6 , with firefox it is so easy to handel and run the files ,