Topic: Firefox Falls Further Behind in Browser Wars

[sam]

Linux user, how many different Internet browsers do you have on your system? You have Konqueror if you use KDE, Iceweasel or Epiphany if you use GNOME, and optionally, you might have Firefox, Chrome or Opera. You might have all of those.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/202354/firefox_falls_further_behind_in_browser_wars.html

-- this has a linux spin to it, but its really a wider issue.

[Rik]

If only Google weren't involved.

[Simon]

I think FireFox has become overblown with bells and whistles, and needs to strip back to it's roots, as a straightforward browser, like SeaMonkey is now. 

[Rik]

Do I hear a plug?

[Simon]

I don't know.  What sound does a plug make? 

[Rik]

Clunk.

[Simon]

[sam]

no matter what neither firefox or seamonkey will keep up with chrome... well not without a re-write that allows it to do multi-threading and take advantage of multiple cores.

[Simon]

I have no idea what either of those are, Sam.