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Firefox: Doing it for love - ZDNet UK Insight

We're excited about Microsoft launching IE 7 — it will remind a lot of people that if they want better features they have to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading.

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Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

firefox is a major new browser player

A nice pointer at how firefox is rising in the charts. The question is the extent to which it can penetrate standardized organizations.

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Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Digital Web Magazine - The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards

A nice discussion of ROI and web standards. Cuts time to change. Also, reduces the need to support alternate browsers since they display to standard with standards.

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Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Ace's Hardware

So firefox is winning among tech users. Will they be opinion leaders? I know some very nontechnical people using firefox. It has gotten a lot of good general press.

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Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Upload Directory script for FireFox

A hack to facilitate file uploads to MT in firefox.

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Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

20% of the uk defecting to firefox?

Once the numbers start to look this good, more site designers will be willing to adopt web standards. This will only quicken the decline for non-standards compliant browsers like IE.

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Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the graphs (part 1)

more firefox stats.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the graphs (part 2)

Interesting notes on the trends in firefox downloads. I can remember when this was considered a completely geeky thing. Now, everyone is doing it.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Speed up your FireFox

This particular fix can also hose your network if things get out of control. In the past, has been noted to slow down performance in some cases.

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Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Internet Explorer Use Keeps Falling

Interesting how firefox keeps plowing ahead. I think it is because innovation keeps on happening on the web. Just staying static is not enough to keep market share (the apparent IE strategy). Once switched, do you switch back?

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Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the firefox solution

I like the idea of an open standards-compliant platform

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Bud posted this on January 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

a better blogging firefox

Better blogging could be better achieved through things like more streamlined default RSS integration. Move sage (an RSS feedreader extension) or something similar into the main firefox build.

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Bud posted this on January 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

portable firefox breaks 100,000 downlaods

Browsers are the interface to all things web. Organizations have a hell of a time migrating login profiles for people as they move from station to station. This seems like a nice non-proprietary, decentralized way of achieving that purpose.

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Bud posted this on January 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

making releases happen - answers

Insight into the process that produced the firefox browser.

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Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

firefox gains

Firefox is taking on Internet Explorere in a firestorm

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Bud posted this on January 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)