making a prediction is very hard. Firefox has a *lot* of extentions that currently is their big advantage.
Why they have a role to play, i think, is very nicely anwsered in the stephen fry movie that simon posted yesterday. It is a proper version of the opensource pitch i gave at barcamp last friday and explains free software very well. ftp://www.etech.ug/GNU/Happy_Birthday_GNU.ogv if you run winblows and have no ogv support yet, you can get VLC from here: http://hosting.mountbatten.net/downloads/Download/AccessTheInternet/VLCMediaPlayer/ rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Wednesday 03 September 2008 09:12:02 joseph mpora wrote: > Anybody want to predict which will be the dominant browsers five years > from now? > > I think Firefox will be the loser. IE is backed by Microsoft, Safari > by Apple and Chrome by Google. Can Firefox compete? > > Why is Firefox popular? Why does Firefox have a bigger share of the > browser users than Opera or other free downloadable browsers? > > These are the questions Google will have to answer to compete with > Firefox and then to eventually take on IE and Safari. > > J > > On 9/3/08, Simon Vass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/google_ch > >rome_comic_funnies/ > > > > Reinier Battenberg wrote: > >> rest asure, it *is* an advert. > >> > >> and it worked wonderfully, not so? > >> > >> Quoting joseph mpora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Read the first 10 or so pages of their (google chrome) comic. > >>> Everything they say makes sense, but it could be a cleverly worded > >>> advert. > >>> > >>> J > >>> > >>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Kenneth Kabagambe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>> IE8 beta! > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Reinier Battenberg > >>>> > >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> webkit is extremely standard-compliant, so the sooner FF & Chrome > >>>>> shoot IE6 > >>>>> back into a history we all want to forget really soon, the marrier. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> rgds, > >>>>> > >>>>> Reinier Battenberg > >>>>> Director > >>>>> Mountbatten Ltd. > >>>>> +256 782 801 749 > >>>>> www.mountbatten.net > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 12:24:16 Mark Tinka wrote: > >>>>>> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 13:48:01 joseph mpora wrote: > >>>>>> > Google is launching an open source web browser to compete > >>>>>> > with Internet Explorer and Firefox. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Here we go again, yet-another-browser-war. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> This should be interesting... :-). > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Mark. > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> LUG mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>>>> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >>>>> > >>>>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them > >>>>> (including attachments if any). 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