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KingBahamut
September 1st, 2005, 03:39 AM
There is a new plugin available for IE that can make Internet Explorer resemble Firefox by adding tabbed browsing capabilities and an integrated search box. Moreover, the plugin improves IE's privacy and security by integrating a firewall designed to block out Internet exploits, phishing sites, spammers, spyware and worms, with a special HTTP filter that removes private data, and an anti-spyware tool that can identify and remove all pests in less then 10 seconds.

Of course, as this is reported on slashdot, the site is getting heavily slashdotted. I suspect that this is going to be the case for a while.

Go on guys, keep that fscker down.

=)

Link for those interested.
http://www.getfoxie.com/

xequence
September 1st, 2005, 03:57 AM
My guess is slashdotted means making the site unreachable? :P

I dont see what the problem is, use firefox... Unless you have a 64 mb ram computer. Then use internet explorer. Thats what happened to my cousins.

Post 200 :)

WildTangent
September 1st, 2005, 04:01 AM
i dont think that site will be online for a couple days at least :P i hope to god my site never gets slashdotted. i would request the link be removed for sure

-Wild

Kyral
September 1st, 2005, 04:36 AM
Watch MS take credit for this and start a new Anti-Firefox campaign starring this plugin

benplaut
September 1st, 2005, 05:21 AM
Watch MS take credit for this and start a new Anti-Firefox campaign starring this plugin

heh... there's some truth in that :roll:

Brunellus
September 1st, 2005, 06:29 AM
There is a new plugin available for IE that can make Internet Explorer resemble Firefox by adding tabbed browsing capabilities and an integrated search box. Moreover, the plugin improves IE's privacy and security by integrating a firewall designed to block out Internet exploits, phishing sites, spammers, spyware and worms, with a special HTTP filter that removes private data, and an anti-spyware tool that can identify and remove all pests in less then 10 seconds.

Of course, as this is reported on slashdot, the site is getting heavily slashdotted. I suspect that this is going to be the case for a while.

Go on guys, keep that fscker down.

=)

Link for those interested.
http://www.getfoxie.com/
it is in fact slashdotted as all get-out.

I don't really see the point though. Does the firewall block active X, too? If not, then why even bother?

xmastree
September 1st, 2005, 07:18 AM
What's next? Microsoft gonna patent tabbed browsing? :roll:

kagashe
September 1st, 2005, 07:24 AM
Hi,

What you people think about this:
Microsoft investigates new IE hole
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1854038,00.asp

kagashe

Lord Illidan
September 1st, 2005, 08:35 AM
What's next? Microsoft gonna patent tabbed browsing? :roll:

Probably they will say in the blurb for IE 7, that it is a revolutionary new browser which uses tabbed browsing, the first browser to support tabbed browsing... ha!!

poofyhairguy
September 1st, 2005, 09:30 AM
Ugg...it would be like taking a woman home that looked good in the dark club to only discover that she is a he back at your place!

weekend warrior
September 1st, 2005, 11:29 AM
"You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear."

(that goes fairly well for all recent MS enhancement revelations)

like putting lipstick on a pig.... :roll:

egon spengler
September 1st, 2005, 12:33 PM
I think that the getfoxie site (http://www.getfoxie.com/feature/firewall/) is a contender for pirated-sites.com (http://archive.pirated-sites.com/)

Mozilla use a creative commons license for content but not design (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing/website-content.html)

xmastree
September 1st, 2005, 12:51 PM
like putting lipstick on a pig.... :roll:In other words you can't polish a turd :wink:

WirelessMike
September 1st, 2005, 02:06 PM
Seems like this has been tried before. MyIE2 was a "wrapper" for IE-- A seperate program using installed Explorer for browsing capability. It was mildly popular for a while but never achieved enough momentum to really "compete."

http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm

When it came out, it was designed to compete head-to-head with Opera and looked incredibly similar. Tabs, popup blocker, skins, etc. Once a community started to develop, some folks started saying "Hey-- If this looks, feels and smells like Opera, why don't we just try Opera?"

Opera's popularity really started to compound, thanks to that.

That was the kiss of death. MyIE2 was doomed to mediocrity. I have a feeling this won't be much different. MS may finally have seriously shot IE in the foot with making this new plugin public. It gives IE users and Firefox users a common forum and it won't be long before IE users fall in love with the Firefox features and someone says, "Hey-- If this looks, feels and smells like Firefox, why don't we just try Firefox?"

Brunellus
September 1st, 2005, 02:08 PM
Seems like this has been tried before. MyIE2 was a "wrapper" for IE-- A seperate program using installed Explorer for browsing capability. It was mildly popular for a while but never achieved enough momentum to really "compete."

http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm

When it came out, it was designed to compete head-to-head with Opera and looked incredibly similar. Tabs, popup blocker, skins, etc. Once a community started to develop, some folks started saying "Hey-- If this looks, feels and smells like Opera, why don't we just try Opera?"

Opera's popularity really started to compound, thanks to that.

That was the kiss of death. MyIE2 was doomed to mediocrity. I have a feeling this won't be much different. MS may finally have seriously shot IE in the foot with making this new plugin public. It gives IE users and Firefox users a common forum and it won't be long before IE users fall in love with the Firefox features and someone says, "Hey-- If this looks, feels and smells like Firefox, why don't we just try Firefox?"
it's not a microsoft plugin, unless there's some thing underhanded going on.

btw, I really went over to linux because I liked using the gimp so much in windows.

WirelessMike
September 1st, 2005, 02:17 PM
it's not a microsoft plugin, unless there's some thing underhanded going on.

btw, I really went over to linux because I liked using the gimp so much in windows.

Good point. Neither was MyIE2. Thank you for the clarification (saves me an edit).

Responsibility for shooting IE in the foot will go to "getfoxie," unless MS updates IE to make the plugin incompatible (and since IE isn't open source, that is not only possible, but historically likely).