Ooo! I know what they should do!! They should make firefox actually continue working properly even after you have had it for a year+….
It freezes and shuts down on me all the time now, wtf?!? Everything is cleared out and set as if it were new, but still I have problems with it….I would use Opera, but it doesnt work well with yahoo or a lot of other sites……..

I think that just goes along with general maintenance where you should clear out your profile and start fresh. It’s kind of like formatting your computer and reinstalling Windows periodically.

Or maybe they could just make it so that their browser doesn’t slow down people’s computers so much that it takes about ten years for Google.com to load?

Either your computer is terrible/riddled with malware, or you’re using dial up or something, because Google loads instantaneously for me, and the rest of my browsing is really fast too.

More people using their browser converts to more advertising revenue, which is of course the foundation of open source (sarcasm).

That whole thing about making Fx take over as default browser sounds kind of underhanded. I thought open source software was supposed to not change things on it’s own without consulting the user. Nonetheless, it’ll probably work.

What I don’t really get is, if people don’t even know what tabs are or that there are different competing web browsers to try out, how does Firefox get installed on their system?

Sadly most non-techy computer users don’t seem to flow like that – they use either whatever is more obvious to them, whatever is forced upon them (hence if they use FF and it sets itself as the default browser they will then also reply ‘Yes’ when IE asks to be made default again, likely making them annoyed with Firefox after a spell) and whatever confuses them the least.

I once saw a little toolbar for IE that added tabs. I was impressed that my friend was trying to improve their web experience this way and sugested that if they liked tabs they should try Firefox. They replied “what are tabs?” and it transpired that the bar had “just appeared” and they had no idea what it did – hadn’t even thought to click it or get rid of it.

They might have some other way of knowning, but that was the first thing that came to mind.