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mahesh2k:
Firefox continues to supress other browsers with it's power.Recently netscape announced that they are no longer going to develop future versions of netscape.They will continue to provide support for their current version 9.But they are encouraging the use of mozzila browser to their users and visitors.This ultimately fails other browser which are using netscape engine.Like Neoplanet and many others.Netscape is out of browser race now and they may not able to put their web standard from now on.This clearly makes firefox on the top of others.
The future holds only to 3-top browsers.
Safari: It will remain alive as long as apple thinks.It will do exist on apple OS,so that apple can implement their operating specific settings and features.
Internet Explorer
No chance that firefox is going to repalce it officially on windows.Microsoft is bending to
open source technologies unofficially (.Net Mono Devlopement) but they are not going to implement any open source framework on windows other than java.Lauch of Blend proved that AJAX,Ruby and Python will be incorporated in Blend but again MS is not making any claims officially about it.
Firefox
It will continue to rise.It is currently the only secure cross paltform browser.Other brosers which are based on gecko engine like flock(Same as mozzila) will continue to have little market share.I'm not sure about opera cause i've personnaly done survey for this browser in many internet cafes.and the users are complaining about its stability and security.It's just my observation.Your experience may vary.
So what is your opinion?
app103:
I think you forgot about Opera
tomos:
well he mentions Opera ... [but under Firefox heading]
I'm not sure about opera cause i've personnaly done survey for this browser in many internet cafes.and the users are complaining about its stability and security.
-mahesh2k (January 13, 2008, 04:51 AM)
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anything I've ever read about browsers though, says that Opera is the most secure of all :tellme:
icekin:
I have all three installed (IE, FF, Opera). I've always admired many features of Opera, but because FF works better with more sites, I've always tried to implement Opera's features in FF through plugins and use FF as my main browser.
But since Opera 9.5 beta, I've set Opera as my main browser. While it eats about the same amount of RAM as FF, it renders a hell lot faster and the whole application feels snappier. Even on poorly coded sites with broken HTML (e.g. Myspace), Opera doesn't hang. On mobile devices, I think that Opera enjoys better market share on desktop. Opera mini is far better than its mobile counterparts.
As for IE, I only use it when nothing else works. Sadly, there are still websites that will work only with IE. IE7 is certainly an improvement in features, but is slower than IE6 and still far behind FF and Opera.
Safari is frankly a joke of a browser. I tried it on Windows and even lesser known browsers like K-Meleon and Seamonkey have more features out of the box. Its resource usage isn't small either, especially for such limited features. I understand that Safari on a Mac is a very different experience since its integrates closely with the rest of the system much like IE on Windows. But even then its features seem limited over FF or Opera.
While the browser market clearly has dominant leaders, I would like to see more small and lite browsers such as K-Meleon and Dillo continue to develop and make new versions. Dillo is particularly attractive due to its tiny resource usage, but development on it seems to have stopped. Flock on the other hand is really FF with more bang out of the box.
Lashiec:
Why is this in Developer's Corner? I think it may fit better in General Software Discussion.
Ya know, AOL was the primary economical force behind the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, many of the developers at Netscape went to Mozilla to develop the new OSS browsers, and Netscape based all future developments of Netscape in Mozilla and Firefox codebase, so it's natural they recommend you to use Firefox now. Besides, to recommend a browser which received its last update in 2001 (NeoPlanet) it's not exactly a good option :)
To call Opera insecure is like calling right now Firefox the most secure browser. It may gain you a few friends among the Firefox fanboys, but Secunia says another thing, so I'd like to know why the individuals involved in your survey say that. And all those security and privacy extensions are included with Opera, you only have to know how to use them. As always, software is only as secure as the person using it makes it to be.
And Flock it's all that Firefox wants to avoid: consuming high amounts of memory and becoming bloatware.
Anyway, don't worry. Presto and KHTML/WebKit will keep Gecko at bay. And maybe Trident in a far future :D
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