Lets set up a world record, but all you have to do is download Firefox 3 on June 17th. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
I’ll be there…
-Lando
Im in. ; )
I signed up, but now I realize I’m going to be on dial-up.
I’ve been spoiled by 100 mbps…
Mm, Im a happy firefox user now(ditched internet explorer a week ago), I’ll be there for sure.
Lame advertising stunt as per usual.
Yeah let’s see how many people we can get to download a browser whose makers will try anything to get it to become the world’s most popular browser.
Dressing it up as a contest to beat a record is unethical.
Maybe I should go into the ice-cream business and get people to try to break the world record for the number of ice-cream cones sold in a day.
Having said that and having to forever deal with IE6 issues and now Outlook 2007 issues, I partly hope it’s successful. Plus, Microsoft got where they are today unethically so perhaps that’s the only way to take their marketshare away from them.
I just don’t want to see Firefox become the new IE when there are other browsers that work better at certain things and may be rendered incompatible.
I wonder if instead of a W3C standard, there was a standard rendering engine implementation. Like Gecko or KHTML. If the engine itself was the standard and every browser had to be built on it then surely things would advance much more quickly and compatibility issues would almost disappear.
This is where Flash still dominates. SWF is not the standard, it’s the plugin + SWF + IDE that define the standard. Compile the plugin for any platform and the SWF works.
I think I understand what you mean. If Firefox becomes the standardized browser that would be almost as bad as a world dominated by IE. As soon as a single program becomes that dominant, I think the choking off of other browsers (Netscape, anyone?) destroys healthy competition and ultimately hurts all the browsers.
However, as a long-time Firefox supporter, and having tried out most other browsers, I honestly think Firefox is the best one out there, and I think there is nothing really unethical about rallying Firefox users against a Microsoft dominated arena, as it is.
And what with Windows’ recent output, I’m hoping and praying that Mozilla deals Microsoft a blow or two.
-Lando
Hmm, I hardly think its unethical. Everybody knows its a marketing stunt, but its a good one, and people will participate just so they an be a part of it.
Its not like their lying to anyone, or cheating anybody or anything.
Any reason as to why that would be so?
I mean not to say that you’re completely wrong, but I always thought that the only way for an open source application to dominate in any given field is to actually be the best in that field.
With a closed source product like IE (or, any other closed source browser) “domination” is usually attained via strength of market share, platform exclusivity or just outright standards manipulation.
Exactly.
Heh, I think osxrules is just venting a little (there’s probably a feature in safari that supports that ).
yeah do you people realize that firefox is open source. Considering this it would be real hard for firefox to become anything like IE is
o yeah and i already have version 3