The Outsider Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 I have a question - how do companies which make browsers make money? For things like IE, Chrome I can understand - they are advertising their base product as well. But Firefox/Opera/former Netscape? The browsers are free distributions.
h4te Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 I have a question - how do companies which make browsers make money? For things like IE' date=' Chrome I can understand - they are advertising their base product as well. But Firefox/Opera/former Netscape? The browsers are free distributions.[/quote'] every time you use the little search box and go buy something, Google pays firefox a good chunk of its value. I think Amazon and others have something similar too. Firefox made like 80 or some million dollars in profit last year! brb, making a web browser :cantstop:
DomainK Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 every time you use the little search box and go buy something' date=' Google pays firefox a good chunk of its value. I think Amazon and others have something similar too. Firefox made like 80 or some million dollars in profit last year! brb, making a web browser :cantstop:[/quote'] And they call themselves a non-profit organization?
Dark Warrior Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 FF 3.5 seems faster than my 3.0.10 I had yes it is
Dark Warrior Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Google Chrome is really fast but no add-ons / extensions !!
The Outsider Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 every time you use the little search box and go buy something' date=' Google pays firefox a good chunk of its value. I think Amazon and others have something similar too. Firefox made like 80 or some million dollars in profit last year! brb, making a web browser :cantstop:[/quote'] Hmmm...that's interesting. So if I buy a book based on a google search from Amazon, Amazon will pay google because I used their search engine(understandable), but then google will also pay Firefox because I used Firefox to browse google? I might as well start using lynx.
punjabi_khota Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 Hmmm...that's interesting. So if I buy a book based on a google search from Amazon' date=' Amazon will pay google because I used their search engine(understandable), but then google will also pay Firefox because I used Firefox to browse google? I might as well start using lynx.[/quote'] I am thinking h4te meant if you used the firefox toolbar, which if you have it installed, has a small google search area on the top right of your firefox window.
Kohum Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 It's memory consumption is crap as before. But it's fast. ADblock plus is missing. :(( so did my version of mouse gestures. But found new gestures. At the least, it doesn't hang every 10/15 minutes like 3.0.10 used to.
DomainK Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 It's memory consumption is crap as before. But it's fast. ADblock plus is missing. :(( so did my version of mouse gestures. But found new gestures. At the least, it doesn't hang every 10/15 minutes like 3.0.10 used to. Strange. Because ABP is working for me. But I had a strange experience. My flash player was working fine for sometime after installing 3.5, but then it just disappeared. I had to download and install again.
Dravid Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 its really fast... plus one new feature is tht it supports all the video formats... no codecs required at all!! amazing thats good no more switching to IE to play cricket links:cantstop:
Dark Warrior Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 thats good no more switching to IE to play cricket links:cantstop: yep :--D
Zap_Brannigan Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 I upgraded to firefox 3.5 yesterday. Ran fine and was abit faster than usual. Today, i was prompted to update my extensions like adblock plus etc. While doing it, everything crashed and i got blue screen in windows and my computer never restarted after that. It could be a coincidence that my comp crapped out at the exact same time as this but i would suggest people to hold off their upgrade till its well established. Since its a work comp, i threw that away and got a new desktop. updating vista right now.
DomainK Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 I upgraded to firefox 3.5 yesterday. Ran fine and was abit faster than usual. Today, i was prompted to update my extensions like adblock plus etc. While doing it, everything crashed and i got blue screen in windows and my computer never restarted after that. It could be a coincidence that my comp crapped out at the exact same time as this but i would suggest people to hold off their upgrade till its well established. Since its a work comp, i threw that away and got a new desktop. updating vista right now. Strange. I think it is a coincidence. I had no trouble at all in upgrading FF or ABP on my home PC. But now that I have heard this, I will wait before upgrading it on my laptop.
Dark Warrior Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Strange. I think it is a coincidence. I had no trouble at all in upgrading FF or ABP on my home PC. But now that I have heard this' date= I will wait before upgrading it on my laptop. naah, u dont worry. tht was just a coincidence
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