Will Mozilla Ever Be Suitable For The Mass Market?
I’m beginning to question whether Firefox/Mozilla is really suited to the mass market. Firefox/Mozilla is designed for those users who want to customise their browsing experience - I don’t think the basic user will want to do this.
Also, if they were to do this they would run the risk of making the browser too hard to use and they could also create additional problems - e.g. I’ve just totally messed up one of my PCs by installing a dodgy extension which when I removed totally messed up my settings.
Also, IE does have some trump cards to play with cool features like the Google Toolbar. All sites also work properly on IE, whereas Firefox still has problems with some key sites.
Maybe, Netscape 8.0 will offer the best of both worlds - a “hybrid” browser, allowing users to click between both IE and Firefox. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
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Comment by Anonymous on 28 December 2005:
Google toolbar is now, and has been for some time, available for firefox, with all its features that it has with IE…
Comment by Anonymous on 7 March 2006:
was internet explorer _ever_ ready for the mass market?
Comment by Anonymous on 8 May 2006:
In all fairness if the website is done to w3c standards it will work in firefox.
Comment by Anonymous on 9 June 2006:
IMO, browsers like Firefox aren’t really FOR the mass market. They are for those looking for an optimized (and customized) browsing experience.
Comment by Sean on 9 June 2006:
I agree. The fact that they release so many versions and promote extensions so freely, would make it an impossible product to support. It’s basically for people who know how to support themselves