I was reading an entry on the blog of J. Andrew Morrison. He talked about Firefox, and said that Firefox is about 38% or less to go to meet 50%. It seems going well. Right now Internet Explorer (IE) is a leading Internet Web Browser on the market share, with 77.01%. Firefox is 13.71%. In July 2005, IE was 84.05% while Firefox was 10.89. Well, Firefox has been doing very well. Firefox will release 2.0 version sometime in late 2006 or early 2007. Right now, Firefox already have Beta 2. The Firefox team already has begun working on the Minefield code, the future Firefox 3.0. Firefox is very busy in these days. Soon, Firefox will release it first Release Candidate 1 this month, estimated around on September 19th.

Since Firefox is getting more users than using IE. IE, for years, always has problems with the web standard, especially Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); they don’t meet it well. However, IE 7.0 is supposed to get better, and meet the current web standard, but doubtedly it will. I have used IE 7.0 Beta 3 now. It is ok. Not bad. I also have tried Vista’s IE. It is nice. Not bad. See see, what happens with new IE in 2007.

Honestly, I think IE should be stopped because they are not getting any better. It also attracts too much on spywares and viruses. Firefox is mostly safe than IE. I have to say that IE is getting very dry! IE is not much of an improved web browser yet. It stays in the same cycle of problems. Read this entry, why IE should be stopped here. There is another article here, too, but it did not tell you why it should stop. He tells why he dumped IE.

I was puzzled when he said ‘Windoze’ in his entry. So I check the definition. It is a new word for me, so should be a new word for you, too. Also, i did not realize that Windows and Windoze pronounce the same.

The definition is:

Microsloth Windows – /mi:’kroh-sloth” win”dohz/ (Or “Windoze”, /win’dohz/) A derogatory term for Microsoft Windows which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with mess-dos that is is agonisingly slow on anything less than a fast 486. Also called just “Windoze”, with the implicationthat you can fall asleep waiting for it to do anything; thelatter term is extremely common on Usenet.

For fun, you can check it out: http://www.hallikainen.org/windoze/winrg.swf.

Once you check that out, that is what happens to my Windows once in a while. It is really frustrating. It is harder to close a program when it crashes! With Mac OS, it is easy… just click “Force Quit” and it forcibly quits immediately. On Windows, I had to click “End Task” in Task Manager dialog a few times before it can be shut down. A few times, at least 6 times! That i know of. Now with new Vista, you would have to upgrade your computer, or buy a Vista compability computer to run Vista smoothly. Vista relies on a lot of graphic, including 3-D, like Open GL. I will write a review of Miscrosoft Vista one day soon after playing with it for a couple of days. I have Vista Ulitmate on my computer. It is still in a beta. Actually, it is now Release Candidate 1.

So, back to Firefox, I am looking forward to Firefox’s future. I still use them, even though Flock is my favorite web browser. Flock is based on a Firefox engine, more specificially on a Gecko engine.

You can download Firefox’s most current version here. But if you are interested in testing teh current Firefox 2.0 Beta, it can be found here. Before you download it, you can read more on Beta 2 here. Lastly, you can also download the latest Minefield version, Firefox 3.0, by clicking ‘download here’ on this site. Let’s surf with the Firefox!

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