portage Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Mozilla will lose its first major battle in 2011. A rather credible tweet puts the launch date of IE9 RC at January 28, which is before Mozilla will get its final beta out the door.We have good reason to believe that the tweet and the “planned date” for launch is accurate as it has been confirmed to two other independent sources. Apparently, Microsoft has notified its closest partners, which includes tier-1 PC manufacturers as well as the usual suspects such as AMD and Intel, that the RC will be launched at the end of this month. The final version of IE9 is scheduled for a mid-Q1 launch.Microsoft recently said that the beta version of IE9 has been downloaded more than 20 million times, which is an impressive result, but not enough to turn the tides in the current browser war. While 20 million downloads should have resulted in a market share of nearly 2%, Microsoft is still below 0.5%, according to net Applications. This indicates that only one in four downloaders keeps actually using IE9 Beta. In comparison, Google’s Chrome now hits 0.35% market share for its developer and beta browser versions – without marketing and within less than 4 weeks. Microsoft needed 14 weeks to hit 0.46% market share for the IE9 Beta.IE9 RC and final will have to be much more sticky than the beta and Microsoft will have to go the extra mile to make a compelling case for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to upgrade to IE9, as Windows XP is not supported. Windows XP still holds almost 57% of the market, while Windows 7 is at almost 21% and Vista is down to 12%. According to Net Applications, Windows XP and Windows Vista are currently surrendering more market share than Windows 7 can gain, which leads us to believe that IE9′s potential market share is capped at less than 35% of the entire market. Depending on fast or slow Microsoft will move users from XP to 7, IE9′s market share will be impacted in a positive or negative way.To increase IE9′s market share, Microsoft will have to make a tough decision either way – either increase the appeal of Windows 7 adoption around the globe or update IE8 to IE9 for XP as well.On a positive note for Microsoft, IE9 is likely to hit the market earlier than Firefox 4, which is on a slow pace to introduction. Beta 8 was more than 4 weeks late, continuing a history of delays of the Firefox 4 beta phase. Beta 9 is now said to stand at 50 blocking bugs. There will be a Beta 10, which includes another 229 blocking bugs. 181 blocking bugs are currently listed for the final version for Firefox 4, not to forget 76 possible bugs that are currently under review. In total, Mozilla has potentially 536 bugs to fix, not including those that may still come up.There is no information how many bugs Microsoft has to fix in IE9, but if Mozilla keeps its pace, then we are still 4 to 6 weeks away from the release of Beta 10 and at least two months from the release of the RC. That would put the possible release date of Firefox 4 at the very end of Q1, which would be about 5 months late from the original schedule and a risky proposition for Mozilla’s position in the browser market. Capturing market share from an old rival browser is a lot easier than from a brand new rival browser.View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 5, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 5, 2011 LOL. I thought they were referring to it's speed, which IE is never going to beat Firefox in. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 IE9 RC Will Beat Firefox 4 RC To LaunchSo? How did Mozilla lose the battle? I believe, Mozilla just gained an advantage. Those who shows off first tends to hit rock bottom first :bag: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portage Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 LOL. I thought they were referring to it's speed, which IE is never going to beat Firefox in. :lol: :lol: That's what I thought when I first saw it too. It's funny though... Microsoft only released IE 9 beta in September and it's almost in RC while firefox started 2 months earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anas Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Ohhh, its kinda deja vu, Microsoft is trying to throw it in the market first and i don't think it will be ready yet. Probably full of bugs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 5, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 5, 2011 That answers it. :rolleyes:Not to forget, M$ is rich money hungry b@stard. It can surely speed the process as much as it can. About Firefox, cooking a good cake takes time, you don't wanna remove it from the oven too fast otherwise it will be unedible. And that's why it's taking so much time. We don't wanna see a buggy final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portage Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 True, I can't wait for the final! ^_^ Atleast their putting it on XP <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 5, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 5, 2011 If you have time and a OK computer, you can switch to Windows 7 without any problems if you want. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portage Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 No I can't because my computer is not powerful enough (1 gig of RAM) and I can't buy a Windows 7 disk. My parents say no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 5, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 5, 2011 I see. Well, if you don't use the aero theme, you can still use it on a 1GB RAM computer. But that wont be comfortable. And guess what, I'm running it perfectly on 2GB RAM and also playing all the good games fine. None of us have bought Windows 7. Just download a untoched Windows 7 ISO, burn it, install it (backup as all the data will get deleted), after installation, just use the Daz Loader to make it genuine. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 @portgage:Or you can wait for eXPerience to release Tiny 7 SP1. I'm not talking about the SP1 - RC.I believe it's a fake. I haven't read any articles concerning the SP1 - RC in their forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 For one reason or the other, Firefox 4 takes about 1.5 seconds longer to open for me. After that i can do something but then 5 seconds later it will "freeze" for about one and a half more seconds. After that it is good to go though. lol. I really hope IE9 blows all the other browsers out of the water. That will encourage even more improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 It just does not matter how much later firefox comes out...i will wait for it and never use the other one :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 5, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 5, 2011 @Naota: Does that happen on every Firefox start? What I've seen is that it only happens on the first start of a profile.IE 9 will never beat Firefox 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 firefox sux nowadays , i know it's still better than IE 9 beta's But why do we have to look for IE to rate firefox they better start doing some good work , or they will suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidoid Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 @DKT27: Just like Naota it happens to me also EVERYTIME it starts. Still, no biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLeigh Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Curious... do either of you have your anti-virus set to check EVERY executable that you run, for viruses? That could be your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipo Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 good article! nice to see new members so active on our forums! keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 At first I thought it was about speed, but then I saw microshit products and thought that they paid them to say such rubbishbut then I saw that it's only about the release date....who give's a s**t...really now, who really give's a s**t about the release date of IE?Opera, Chrome, Firefox....all of them stand way above IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehsan Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I'm going to test IE9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I see. Well, if you don't use the aero theme, you can still use it on a 1GB RAM computer. But that wont be comfortable. And guess what, I'm running it perfectly on 2GB RAM and also playing all the good games fine. None of us have bought Windows 7. Just download a untoched Windows 7 ISO, burn it, install it (backup as all the data will get deleted), after installation, just use the Daz Loader to make it genuine. :)I actualy did buy it for $14. It was a student release deal. I buy software if the price is right :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 So... other then people who dont know about alternate browsers, people who are FORCED to use it at work or for a website that doesnt display in a good browser, WHO IS GOING TO USE THIS?!? Sure it will be downloaded "40 billion times" but only because it will be included as an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 For one reason or the other, Firefox 4 takes about 1.5 seconds longer to open for me. After that i can do something but then 5 seconds later it will "freeze" for about one and a half more seconds. After that it is good to go though. lol. I really hope IE9 blows all the other browsers out of the water. That will encourage even more improvements.LOL.. sounds like FF4 is taking n the startup qualities of IE.. :P I would be willing to bet that tracking this down and solving/resolving it would be easy.. unless its has been coded into the program.. Do wish there was faster way to start FF though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portage Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Firefox has always been slow to start up unfortunately and I don't see anyway to make it start faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Yeah I agree...Usually without a ton of extensions it is supposed to be faster .. I have tried a few startup settings changes like killing the updating and a few others.. with 35 active extension I still get a 3-6 sec startup though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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