Nick Skrepetos wrote:
> Ron Lopshire wrote:
>
>>Nick Skrepetos wrote:
>>
>>>Ron Lopshire wrote:
>>>
>>>>Nick Skrepetos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>For instance, our stats as of right now today on SUPERAntiSpyware.com
>>>>>is 79.74% Internet Explorer, 19.2% Firefox/Mozilla and the balance
>>>>>everything else, just FYI. The SUPERAdBlocker.com stats are about the
>>>>>same with IE @ 82.1% and FireFox/Mozzilla @ 17.3%
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the opportunity to rant, Nick. Keep up the good work.
>>>>
>>>>The stats for SUPERAdBlocker surprise me, as I thought that SAB only
>>>>worked with IE, based on this:
>>>>
>>>>"Super Ad Blocker supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, AOL 8.x
>>>>and above, and MSN on Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP!"
>>>>
>>>>That's why I never looked into SUPERAdBlocker.
>>>>
>>>>Just based on a casual observation, the browser/client usages seem to
>>>>vary between NNTP and the Web Fora. In the GRC NGs, for example, there
>>>>appear to be tons of Opera users, perhaps even as many as the Mozilla
>>>>users. Particularly since it went free.
>>>
>>>Ron - interesting data on the NNTP vs Web. I bet the NNTP stuff varies
>>>quite a bit as not as many non-techie users do the newsgroup thing.
>>>
>>>We do support Firefox with SUPERAdBlocker - have for over a year - it's
>>>on the home page, product page and the logo is everywhere. Where did
>>>you see that other text, I will promptly correct it!
>>
>>I believe that I got that info from this page, but it appears to have
>>been corrected.
>>
>> http://www.superadblocker.com/produc...adblocker.html
>>
>>Quote: " Super Ad Blocker supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above,
>>Firefox, AOL 8.x and above, and MSN on Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP!"
>>
>>Good thing that I quoted the original. Otherwise I might think that I
>>was imagining things.
>>
>>BTW, no problems with Firefox 2.0?
>
> Ron - we are working on Firefox 2.0 - the problem we face with Firefox
> is that being open source people just change things internally with no
> documentation or backward compatability - at least with IE they
> maintain the "old" interfaces so things won't break. We should have the
> support shortly. We always have to wait until almost "final" release
> because of the "random" changes - that is the one big unfortunate thing
> about open source.

Thanks, Nick. Lots of people complaining in the FF NGs about features
that were removed in FF 2.0 with no warning. Some of them, such as the
Get Mail feature, should never have been added in the first place, but
once you add something to a popular app, taking it away ruffles a lot
of feathers.

And you are correct about Open Source. Contrary to the what the
Polyannas, altruists and socialists would have you believe, Open
Source is no panacea when it comes to software development. Ya takes
the good with the bad. [g]

Ron