recently there are bad news about firefox, in CNET, ZDNET etc.
http://www.informationweek.com/story...Sfeed_IWK_news

why r they against firefox?

I don't think they're necessarily against Firefox. They're just providing analyses. I happen to agree with many of their points, too. Just like Linux has taken a lot of business away from the other, proprietary UNIX variants such as HP-UX, AIX and Solaris, Firefox may need to fight over more market share against other browsers than IE.

The media loves controversy. They will report or spin any story to make it some more controversial and exciting. At first it was controversial and exciting to say, "Hey, look at this upstart browser! It's taking away marketshare from Internet Explorer--something that hasn't happened in about ten years." Now that that buzz is over, the controversial and exciting thing to say is, "Hey, Firefox's growth is on the wane! Firefox has a lot of security holes! IE 7 is on the way!"

If life is too static, no one wants to read the news. It's a war. It's a controversy. It's a new natural disaster. It's a new sex scandal. A new divorce. A new crime. A new marriage. A newborn baby. A new president. Whatever they can do to get people to say, "Oh, my God. Really?" That's the way they'll spin it.

high growth rates always slow as the available market is reduced. wouldn't the growth rate become zero if everyone adopted Firefox?

i wonder what the growth rate of information week's website has been over the last quarter.

-da baron

This is more of a news type thing, as such I'm moving you to that forum.

That was an insight full article. Firefox is a great browser, even though I use Konqueror most of the time, but Firefox is my second choice.

On all M$ machines that I load, I install Firefox and inform the users about the safe use of this browser. IE = spyware and with the new IE 7 coming out, with tabs, means more and more spyware. Not to mention the ads.

Due to the installation of Firefox on M$ machine, and removing the use of IE, I have found considerably less crap and these systems. Sometimes none.

I have noticed that ZDNET over dramatises any problems with popular opensource apps. I am not sure whether its just to make exciting headlines or someone has something against opensource.

Maybe it's because ZDNet and Microsoft are affiliates

That just figures. What doesn't Mr Gates have his little lunch hooks into?

Ubuntu?

Hopefully it stays that way.

that article said that if firefox wants double digit market share it has to go mainstream.

what does that mean? firefox isnt mainstream? could have fooled me. what constitutes mainstream? being bundled with an OS? it is. oh wait, thats right, it has to be completely integrated into the OS, so deep that it cant be removed

Whether not people use firefox or not, it will still exist.I personally stopped using firefox a while back when I realised how much faster epiphany is.I miss the themes and addblock of firefox, tho.

Given MS hired the Gentoo guy, it's not too far fetched for an anti trust monopolistic entity to hire others who have good ideas and create superior products to them.

M$ hired a Gentoo guy? That is just sad. Personally I believe that the open source projects should not even THINK about supporting M$. I know this does not comply with the philosophy, but M$ swallows up everything. M$ does not need any help. As far as my opinion goes, and it is just that, gtk, qt, openoffice, linux in general, and any other open source should not support M$ in any way shape or form. I really got choked when I read that KOffice was working towards being installed on M$ systems.