Comments on: Don’t Block Firefox!

By: Reid Wicks

Reid Wicks — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:41:41 +0000

I reckon that if people placed ads in places where they dont take up a whole page or looks ugly, has sound or video then no one would block ads because they wouldent get annoyed by these ads

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By: Mike, WTH?

Mike, WTH? — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:39:25 +0000

WTH?

“Firefox really makes my life hard. Firefox would be fine with me if it would follow
normal css properties. I use Firefox and IE everyday.”
Listen, it’s INTERNET EXPLORER that’s not following “normal css properties,” not Firefox. Firefox is lightyears more standards-compliant than IE.

“Firefox is awful forbrowsing sites like Myspace.”
There’s your problem right there.

“Most myspacers use freelayouts that are css based. Major issue viewing in firefox.”
First of all, any website worth its salt has a CSS layout. Again, the problem is from clueless IE-using 12-year-olds pasting some code into their MySpace page, not Firefox.

By: Mike Howey

Mike Howey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:57:33 +0000

Hey everyone. As a person who creates websites for a living, I can say Firefox
really makes my life hard. Firefox would be fine with me if it would follow
normal css properties. I use Firefox and IE everyday. Firefox is awful for
browsing sites like Myspace. Most myspacers use freelayouts that are css based.
Major issue viewing in firefox. If you only use firefox you probably do not
realize how much site content your missing. I’ll would jump on the firefox boat
when they catch to ie. But for now I’m stuck with ie.

By: W.H.G.

W.H.G. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:07:04 +0000

@Dan keep your lols and triple-exclamation-marks to yourself. FYI, CrazyBrowser isn’t a browser, its basically just a skin for IE. And you FF claims are all fake. You can easily have a hundred tabs open in FF, and WTF is with your rubbish about it “changing its settings”?
“techie wanna-bies”? That sounds more like you. You clearly have no clue what your talking about.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:54:12 +0000

LOL LOL LOL
FireFox is over-rated. I don’t see why people think FireFox is so great. I really don’t. I use CrazyBrowser because I can have (and have had) a hundred sites or more all open at once! And it does just fine. Whereas FireFox chocks. Plus, if anything happens on my PC .. it seems as if anything at all .. FireFox changes its settings and I have to start all over!!! CrazyBrowser is much stabler. It’s based on the IE platform but for me its the best. Keep your FireFox. I think it’s mostly for techie wanna-bies. :O/

By: Microsoft Sucks

Microsoft Sucks — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:10:05 +0000

That’s the POINT in blocking IE. It has 75% of the market, and you want to reduce it. And who cares how fast the browser starts? Leave it open all day like normal people! Down with Micro$oft!

By: Joshua Issac

Joshua Issac — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:42:54 +0000

Why are some going on about blocking IE? Doesn’t IE own 75% of the market? I have also tested the browsers; on my computer, IE is faster than FireFox in loading time, and, most importantly, in startup time (which is one of the reasons I didn’t stay with Firefox). I accept that FireFox is safer than IE6, but because all I care about (at the moment) is speed, I’m sticking with IE (with Adblock installed). With Microsoft all the way!

By: Marco Ruelicke.net

Marco Ruelicke.net — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:42:14 +0000

I knew why I ignored that part of his comment, Matt
About that plagiarism, I heard of quite a few occasions where a newspaper(!) stole content from a blog. Be it a whole article or an image, newspapers do abuse blogs for their articles.

P.S.: Matt, keep an eye peeled on my blog, I’ll publish a fix for the line break bug of NicEdit very soon. I assume it will be helpful for you

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:58:55 +0000

"Hi," you should note that adblock can only automatically block ads from ad networks, not ones you sell directly to advertisers (like 125x125s), which are a much better deal for sites than the networks are.

"The only reason 99.999% of big/good websites exist is because the people who devote their lives to creating the content are able to get ad revenue in exchange."
Not true. Surely you've heard of "Web 2.0" sites. How many of those are supported by ads? Not many. Look at Ars Technica, a major tech blog. They have some ads, but they make a lot of their money by selling premium subscriptions which allow access to restricted areas (yet all of the normal news is available to everyone).

"Newspapers would no longer share their content. Bloggers who copy from newspapers wouldn’t have content anymore unless they were going to just go buy the paper and type the text in. Big blogs would
shut down or get much smaller."
Now you're accusing bloggers of plagiarism, and that's going too far. As a blogger, and aspiring fantasy author, I'm not going to let that slide past. Bloggers, especially those who write for the "big blogs" you speak of, do not steal content. They may quote small parts, and link to the rest, but they do not copy. Also, plenty of original content comes from blogs, rather than other publications. Look at CNet.com. They are a large collection of blogs, and a news source. They are a newspaper. Heck, traditional publications won't be around much longer anyway. They are being replaced by online publications (ie. blogs).