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How to compare browsers

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:32:04 -0700

An Opera users view ... (btw: I use the first one).

~peter

Intel® Mash Maker: Mashups for the Masses

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:03:29 -0700

At first it only looks like as just another new extension for Firefox. With a look downward on the web page it becomes interesting.

Intel® Mash Maker is an extension to your existing web browser that allows you to easily augment the page that you are currently browsing with information from other websites. As you browse the web, the Mash Maker toolbar suggests Mashups that it can apply to the current page in order to make it more useful for you. For example: plot all items on a map, or display the leg room for all flights.
...
Technical Requirements

* Firefox 2.0 or later
We intend to produce Internet Explorer and Safari versions later.

~peter

Why Firefox is Blocked

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:15:29 -0700

While browser wars slowly calming down, erred single fighters try further to undermine the liberties of the users. With the web page http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/index1.php a poor more madly guy tries to call the webmasters of this world to block firefox because one can protect oneself successfully with it and with various extensions from penetrant advertisement. apart from his technical unawareness Danny Carlton aka Jack Lewis walks on the way to a common next to each other into the opposite direction and calls for fight. capable webmasters will probably hardly support this.

~peter

Mahalo - a new search engine

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:29:10 -0700

A new search engine named Mahalo has been launched. All entries will be examined.

Looking for "Mozilla Firefox" displays a lot of more or less known links. First Place at Mahalo Top 7 is the official site of Mozilla.com.

At this place congratulations to Ken Saunders occupying place 7 with Access Firefox.

~peter

Google Trends

Tue, 22 May 2007 09:22:29 -0700

A relative new option at Google is searching for trends. You may search for whatever you are interested in and will receive the trend for the last years up to now. Try Google Trends with "Firefox" or "Mozilla".

The only disadvantage of trends is, that you can look only into the past and not yet into the future. I believe firmly in the fact that Google already works on it. ;o)

~peter

my life, my car, my browser

Sat, 19 May 2007 23:31:11 -0700

This contribution was written after reading the article "Firefox users lead the way in keeping up to date" at ars technica, a reference of gialloporpora and a comment of jan at Foxiewire.

my life, my car, my browser

I pursue for a long time the discussion about the „correct“ browser. I always ask myself, which browser is correct one for me . My requirements in terms of it are as in the real life. I look for something that meets my needs, something that is useful for me, something, which I can deal with well, something, which makes fun.

As a young adult and student I had a Volkswagen. That was used and cheap. With him I could drive more or less fast from A to B. With this Volkswagen I drove to the university, to my work, to my girlfriends. If somewhat did not function, I could repair it. Exactly the same was issued to me with my first computer programs. If somewhat was not so programmed, as it pleased me, I had changed it evenly. At that time I was young, always on discovery journey, and tried everything out.

After the study I had good jobs, good work and a good income. Suddenly my Volkswagen was too small, too slowly, too „cheaply“. I could afford a comfortable new car of the elevated middle class. That brought me very fast and very comfortably to my meetings, customers and into vacation. Nevertheless I tinkered at the car or let tinker to it. Auxiliary headlight, broader tires, another exhaust. I adapted my car to my desires. During this time I used ready-to-use software. Those was not expensive only, but did not function mostly in such a way, as I wanted that. That was and lies because of the fact, that the programmers often do not know the need of the user at all. These malfunctions went down regarding the everyday life stress or caused still more stress.

Today I have a calmer job. I can steer my dates. I can specify even, how much stress I would like to have. And I have a bicycle. There is the experiment-joyful little boy in me still however. Only the experiments became somewhat harmless. Everything in my environment is to function in such a way, as I would like it. If necessary I would like my environment to adapt. I would like to feel well.

Now here everyone will wait for the story about the browser. Well, actually I am already in the middle of it. The student tinkers somewhat cheap together for himself. The young manager uses something, which is allegedly modern, well and expensive. The adult uses something, which is his content. I will not talk here now about the pro and cons of the life, a car or a browser. Everyone must find these things out for itself. I am content with my life, my bicycle and my browser. By the way, I drive a Kettler mountainbike and use Firefox.

~peter

World Information Society Award 2007 Laureates

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:49:15 -0700

Seen at heise online news:

Mozilla von der International Telecommunications Union ausgezeichnet
... Ein weiterer Award geht an die Mozilla Corporation, vertreten durch die Mozilla-Chefin Mitchell Baker.
"Mozilla ist keine tradionelle Software-Firma. Es ist eine globale Gemeinschaft, eine öffentliche Wohltätigkeitsorganisation, die sich dafür einsetzt, die Internet-Erfahrung für Menschen in aller Welt zu verbessern",
heißt es in der Begründung der ITU, die den Award sonst nur an Personen vergibt. Mit der Auszeichnung für das Open Source-Projekt werde der Ansatz geehrt, dass auch die Ärmsten erstklassige Software nutzen können.

Mozilla receives this unusual honor …

... for its outstanding contribution towards the development of world-class Internet Technologies and Applications

Details and more information at International Telecommunication Union

~peter

Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox

Tue, 08 May 2007 09:27:59 -0700

Here are the headlines of an interwiew with Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, about past, present and future of Firefox:

The interview's over 8,000 words long, so we've broken it up into sections to make it easier to navigate.

    * Part 1: How 12 people made Firefox 1.0
    * Part 2: Where Firefox's $US55million a year comes from
    * Part 3: Putting Firefox on mobile phones
    * Part 4: business cool on IE7, recontemplating Firefox?
    * Part 5: Why no built-in ad-blocker in Firefox yet?
    * Part 6: Firefox 3.0 "lock-in branding" -- what gives!
    * Part 7: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight
    * Part 8: The touchy relationship between Microsoft and Mozilla
    * Part 9: Getting Firefox onto more desktops
    * Part 10: Mozilla Japan's cute Firefox cartoon character
    * Part 11: The stoush over Linux distros and the Firefox trademark
    * Part 12: Mozilla working on "Web 3.0" -- web apps that will run in your browser without an internet connection

The full text of the interwiew can be found at APC.

A german extract has been written at PCWELT.

I recommend to read the APC-Version.

~peter

Is the war over ?

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:19:05 -0700

This report was found at PCWELT (german)

Vorbei die Zeiten, in denen eine Browser-Version die nächste jagte und versuchte bei den Anwendern mit immer neuen Funktionen zu punkten. Vorbei also der Browser-Krieg. Diese Ansicht herrschte jedenfalls beim Treffen von Entwicklern von Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera und Google. Statt mit immer neuen, funktionsreicheren Browser-Version aufzutrumpfen, wolle man sich künftig darauf zu konzentrieren, die Browser in den Gebieten zu verbessern, die notwendig sind, damit Browser eine Plattform für immer leistungsfähigere Web-Applikationen werden. ...weiter ...

translated by google:

Past the times, in which a Browser version hunted the next and tried with the users with always new functions to score. Past thus the Browser war. This opinion prevailed anyhow when meeting developers of Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Google. Instead of playing trumps with always new, function-richer Browser version one to concentrate wants the Browser in the areas to improve, which are necessary in the future on it, so that Browser become a platform ever more efficient Web applications. ... more ..

After end of workday Firefox lies in front

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:22:01 -0800

SPIEGEL ONLINE (de) evaluated about 320 million sitecalls per month and compares the browser usage during office hours and after end of workday.

    * Mozillas Firefox is market leader on private PCs
    * Microsoft Internet Explorer is market leader in the office
    * Microsoft market power shrinks after end of workday

On a workday the ranking is MSIE 53.24% and Firefox 38.34%.

At the weekend Firefox leads with 46.4% in front of MSIE with 41.99%.

Find the complete report (german) and the statistics here.

Firefox is # 8 worldwide

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:27:08 -0800

Brandchannel.com selected the top 10 brands of 2005. Firefox is # 8 worlwide.

graphic by brandchannel.com

The German Pro-Linux News reports:

In der globalen Zusammenfassung erreichte Firefox einen beachtlichen achten Platz und ließ damit Sony und eBay hinter sich. Mit weitem Abstand lagen Google und Apple auf den Plätzen 1 und 2. Dahinter folgten Skype, Starbucks, Ikea, Nokia und Yahoo!.

In the global summary reached Firefox a considerable respected place 8 and left thereby Sony and eBay behind itself. With far distance Google and Apple were on the places 1 and 2. Behind it followed Skype, Starbucks, Ikea, Nokia and Yahoo!. (translated by Google)

~peter

statistics

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:22:22 -0800

good news. the german heise online newsletter reports the latest browser statistics.

Browser-Anteile auf heise online

User-Agent	Dezember 2005	November 2005	Dezember 2004
Firefox	44,0 %	42,5 %	31,3 %
Internet Explorer 6.0x	26,9 %	28,1 %	35,4 %
Gecko (Mozilla/Netscape 6 o.ä.)	6,1 %	6,6 %	11,1 %
Opera 8	6,4 %	6,3 %	—
Apple Safari	2,5 %	2,6 %	2,1 %
KDE Konqueror	1,9 %	1,9 %	2,2 %
Opera 7.x	0,7 %	0,8 %	7,0 %
Internet Explorer 5.5x	0,7 %	0,8 %	2,0 %
andere/unbekannt	10,2 %	10,4 %	7,7 %

Browser-Hersteller auf heise online

Hersteller	Dezember 2005	November 2005	Dezember 2004
Mozilla & Co (Gecko-Engine)	50,2 %	49,1 %	42,4 %
Microsoft	28,4 %	29,6 %	38,7 %
Opera	7,4 %	7,5 %	7,3 %
Apple	2,5 %	2,6 %	2,1 %
KDE	1,9 %	1,9 %	2,2 %
Netscape vor 6.x	0,2 %	0,2 %	0,4 %

Some Attention Needed

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:37:44 -0800

I'm watching the growth of Firefox with pleasure. But I see dark clouds at the horizon. Firefox is friendly to Google and to others. Hey, you Firefox-Making-Guys, don't let the force wrapped over you.

I believe ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:14:33 -0800

Changing the years gives enough time to think about past, present, future. In my very special own I do believe, that 2006 will become an Open Source Year. Not only Firefox is on the top of my favorites. Since a longer time open source software is growing and spreading more and more. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gimp, Inkscape and a lot of other programs are distributed under GNU or CCL. One can use it for free and one can find lots of sites to get or to share information about it.

It is not the secretary in 35th floor I am talking about, even if she sends her documents via email. I am talking about the adult user who knows what he/she/it does. Open Source Software will become a mayor part of software in companies. Just tell your SysAdmin because you prefer this or that open source software. A good SysAdmin will check it out. The better SysAdmins will agree with you.

It may be a hard future for software royalities but it will be a good future for open source users.

So let us have a look at it in about 12 month. I believe fronts will change.

~peter

(sorry for bad english and bad punctuation)

i don't spread too much

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:23:23 -0800

a tiny story at the end of a good year ...

yesterday i met a friend of mine to have a nice evening. we had some drinks and talked about this and that. suddenly she said "whow!! it tooks about three hours before you start talking about Firefox!".

so i promise to start spreading Firefox next year some earlier.

wishing you all a happy new year.

~peter