IE6 is an Ugly Unbeatable Stepsister?

Comments (1) · April 2, 2008 at 6:28 am · Firefox News

Joe Wilcox over at eWeek has put together a pretty interesting graph charting the adoption rate for the web browsers out there in 2007.  The graph and story along with it are both pulling information from the recent Forrester Research report, “Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007.”

As you can see Internet Explorer is still pulling head as you would assume it would do, but Firefox still is holding a healthy share of the market.  Internet Explorer 7 itself still can’t beat the ugly stepsister that is Internet Explorer 6 though. 

Microsoft Inspired Firefox Themes

Comments (3) · November 5, 2007 at 7:23 am · Firefox Themes

Hard to think that there are more than a few Microsoft inspired themes out there for the Firefox browser. Now I have no real hate towards everybody’s favorite monopoly - but it is always amusing to poke fun at the biggest dog in the yard.

Want to go back to the Office?

Now I don’t know too many people who say, “I’m such a big fan of Office, I wished all my apps looked like this!” but love it or hate it, the Office look makes for a pretty nice Firefox theme. If your looking for that traditional Microsoft look - but with a little class and style the Office theme for Firefox might be the download you have been looking for.

Stick it up your aero, Vista!

Our next Firefox theme inspired by the Microsoft machine looks like it fell out of Windows Vista. If your a big fan of the way the new Internet Explorer 7 looks then the Vista-areo theme might be up your alley. Sleek blue style with that Microsoft glow.

Crappy, yet classic Microsoft style…

Now this is the style that you know and love. No wait, does anybody really love the classic and familiar look of IE6? No - it couldn’t be.. could it? Well if you do fall in that camp then the Looks Familiar theme for Firefox is a download you might want to do in private. Close the blinds though and make sure nobody sees you using it.

Browser Wars Redux

Comments off · February 6, 2007 at 8:32 am · Firefox News

Looking through the links folks had submitted to me over the past week for the Web site, I ran across an interesting article covering the latest shots fired in the browser wars. Figured you might want to check it out as well (I promise they have pretty graphs!).

The internet browser market has been fiercely competitive of late, with two major browsers being released at the same time in the last quarter of 2006 - namely, the latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the long-awaited second edition of the open-source community developed browser Firefox. There are other bit-players in the market, certainly, but indisputably these are the big two - both released in late October / November of last year.

+ Read More About the Browser Wars Redux!

Firefox Fingerprint Reader

Comments off · January 22, 2007 at 7:56 am · Firefox Security

Want your browser to read your finger? Well since I have no Microsoft Fingerprint Reader, I can not tell you how well it works - but the Fingerfox extension might be what you are looking for.

Fingerfox (SE) is an extension that adds compatibility for Microsoft Fingerprint Reader in Mozilla Firefox. Fingerfox (SE), Special Edition, is recommended for those, who has problems with the original Fingerfox extension.

Honestly, with fingerprint reading aside I like this extension just because of it’s name. It is just fun to say! Come on, everybody on the count of three.. one.. two.. three.. Fingerfox!

Now wasn’t that fun?

+ Download and Install the Fingerfox Extension for Firefox!

Looks Familiar

Comments (1) · December 7, 2006 at 3:50 am · Firefox Themes

Now I know I have seen these icons somewhere before - where was it? Oh yeah, it was that ugly monster that Microsoft called Internet Explorer 6. Now maybe you have a friend that was really in love with the IE6 interface. What are you to do when you want them to use Firefox instead? Give them the Looks Familiar theme because, well… it looks familiar to them!

+ Download and Install the Looks Familiar theme for Firefox 2!

Mozilla and Microsoft Meet

Comments off · October 14, 2006 at 4:55 am · Firefox Security

Mozilla has returned from Microsoft’s headquarters after meeting with the Open Source Director regarding Windows Vista. There were several different things that Mozilla wanted to address especially concerning new security features and restrictions that Microsoft placed in Vista. Here are some of the things that Mozilla had wanted to discuss…

+ Read More About The Meeting at CyberNet News!

Bill Gates on Firefox

Comments off · September 13, 2006 at 10:05 am · General Posts

In an article I mostly skimmed over because it was mostly filled with Microsoft pats on the back, I did run across an intresting nugget of information.

Bill Gates is one of the people with Firefox on his computer, so I asked him for his opinion.

“I played around with it a bit, but it’s just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,” Mr Gates told me, and challenged my assertion that Firefox’s ‘market share’ is growing rapidly.

“So much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?” he argued.

Yes, Mr. Gates people do actually use it.