"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ BearItAll on Thursday 13 September 2007 13:12 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Firefox market share surges in Europe
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Hungary has seen the most dramatic increase in Firefox use, from 27.2
>>>> | percent in the March 2007 survey to nearly 40 percent in July.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=10048&pagtype=all
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is higher than IE7, but IE7 is rising so it might be said that IE7 is
>>> building as people move from IE6. Except that long term numbers suggest
>>> that the loss of IE6 has not been taken up entirely by IE7.
>>>
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>>>
>>> I must say that anyone that I have put on either Opera or Firefox take
>>> to it
>>> without trouble, which should be the case, a browser should allow you to
>>> browse, it shouldn't matter who's name is at the top of it. I still
>>> think
>>> though that Opera's session system out does both FF and IE7.
>>
>> FF has nice plugins for this. They act as enhancement that you can't live
>> without once you get used to them (and take for granted).
>>
>
> Firefox is truly excellent. It's highly mature, reliable and
> predictable, and the extensions design was a moment of genius in the
> design process. The sort of moment of genius which would never occur to
> a proprietary vendor, as they "lose control".
Microsoft introduced browser extensions (plug-ins) in IE5. That's 1998 which
is about NINE years ago. Yet another "OSS innovation" and yet again Mark
Kent proves there is nothing that he can't get wrong or otherwise screw up.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753587.aspx
Browser extensions, introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, allow
developers to add functionality to the browser and enhance the user
interface.
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