natmaster wrote:

The strength of Firefox is that it is designed for USERS, not so developers can feel happy about their crazy features. Because of this, Firefox is a basic browser with great extensibility – this plays into the hands of every type of user.

I believe one of Firefox target audience is web developers. Putting the focus on web stands makes the job of developing web sites easier. I believe that one day all (major) browses will be 100% WC3 compliant. This will be in part because of Mozilla’s strong stance on stands. Just think how easy it will be to create a web site that works the say way any all major browsers without having to tweaking the CSS and JavaScript for the various browsers.

I don’t think of Firefox as a basic browser. I think it is more complete than IE in part because of how more complete it support web standards. In my opinion, that what matters most. Not to mention features like inline spell checking, integrated search bar, etc.

I think Firefox appears to be a “basic browser” because of how clean it appears and nimble it performs.

What I meant by ‘basic browser’, is a browser that only includes useful features for a lot of people – rather than anything that can be thought up.

I agree that Firefox’s extensibility is a big plus, but they need to make people more aware of the extensions and themes that are available for them to pick from. Maybe they should come up with a wizard that walks people through installing add-ons and even offers to install a few add-ons that maybe Mozilla would create themselves. If people would see how easy it is to install these things they might become more aware that they are available.

See what Blake Ross has to say about showing extensions:
[operawatch.com]

Mozilla made extensions? See [labs.mozilla.com]

The strength of Firefox is that it is designed for USERS, not so developers can feel happy about their crazy features. Because of this, Firefox is a basic browser with great extensibility – this plays into the hands of every type of user.

I believe one of Firefox target audience is web developers. Putting the focus on web stands makes the job of developing web sites easier. I believe that one day all (major) browses will be 100% WC3 compliant. This will be in part because of Mozilla’s strong stance on stands. Just think how easy it will be to create a web site that works the say way any all major browsers without having to tweaking the CSS and JavaScript for the various browsers.

I don’t think of Firefox as a basic browser. I think it is more complete than IE in part because of how more complete it support web standards. In my opinion, that what matters most. Not to mention features like inline spell checking, integrated search bar, etc.

I think Firefox appears to be a “basic browser” because of how clean it appears and nimble it performs.

The strength of Firefox is that it is designed for USERS, not so developers can feel happy about their crazy features. Because of this, Firefox is a basic browser with great extensibility – this plays into the hands of every type of user.

I agree that Firefox’s extensibility is a big plus, but they need to make people more aware of the extensions and themes that are available for them to pick from. Maybe they should come up with a wizard that walks people through installing add-ons and even offers to install a few add-ons that maybe Mozilla would create themselves. If people would see how easy it is to install these things they might become more aware that they are available.

Everyone says that they have heard at one time or another that they should download Firefox. That’s great, but the people telling them to do that are probably people who have extensions, yet they fail to tell the people how easy it is to install the extensions and to find them. So if the people ever get around to using Firefox this is one thing that they would probably never experiment with.

Even the fact that FF 2.0 wasn’t much of an upgrade…FF still kills IE in my opinion, just for the extensions and feature-set you can potentially have.

It’s a great piece of software.

Firefox’s potential is both its strength and weakness. I have heard several people say that they don’t use Firefox because there isn’t anything special to it…and as it turns out it’s because they don’t realize how much you can configure it or even that you can install extensions. Mozilla needs to find out some way that they can spread the word about Firefox and maybe it would involve them dipping into their millions of dollars that are sitting in the bank from the Google Search Box. They played around with advertising on TV in California a little bit, but they need to do it on a much larger scale now.