Firefoxer

English Etymology From en Firefox er occupation. Noun One who uses the web browser Firefox. en Scott Granneman Don’t Click on the Blue e!: Switching to Firefox O’Reilly Media 2005 182 https://archive.org/details/dontclickonbluee0000gran/page/182/mode/1up 0-596-00939-9 Follow that up with a polite email to the site’s webmaster, asking him to test that page in Firefox. You may be helping a lot of fellow Firefoxers. en Out of Site at AdAge.com Advertising Age 77 19 8 May 2006 38 Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users / Your friends may soon try to make a buck off of you. en Up to Speed: Upgrades That’ll Keep You Humming Along Computer Power User 6 06 June 2006 73 https://archive.org/details/computer-power-user-magazine-v6i6/page/n74/mode/1up Most updates this month are iterative rather than substantial, but Firefoxers finally get their new Google Toolbar. en w:Josh Quittner User’s Guide: The Better Browser. Firefox 3 is free—and well worth it Time 14 July 2008 62 https://archive.org/details/time-2008-11-10/Time%202008-07-14/page/n67/mode/1up Firefox is kind of the Web’s home-team favorite—1. Firefoxers even tried to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads (8.2 million) in a 24-hour period. en Ann Smarty 2 Ways to DISlike Things on Facebook (FireFox and Google Chrome) Search Engine Journal https://www.searchenginejournal.com/2-ways-to-dislike-things-on-facebook-firefox-and-google-chrome/22599/ 16 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100719103245/http://www.searchenginejournal.com:80/2-ways-to-dislike-things-on-facebook-firefox-and-google-chrome/22599 19 July 2010 Facebook Dislike is another option for FireFoxers. en Lyn Millner A Little Bird Told Me Journal of Mass Media Ethics 27 1 2012 10.1080/08900523.2012.644140 60 Tim Carmody (2011) of Wired.com wrote that the AptiQuant story spread on social media because the research supported what many of us already believed—that people with lower IQs resist change when it comes to their browsers (AptiQuant, 2011). Yes, story selection is often influenced by confirmation bias, but this hoax would have spread just as quickly if the data showed that Firefoxers were the dumbos. en Serdar Yegulalp 4 Firefox rebuilds feed the need for speed w:InfoWorld https://www.infoworld.com/article/2619513/4-firefox-rebuilds-feed-the-need-for-speed.html?page=6 14 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20230511093205/https://www.infoworld.com/article/2619513/4-firefox-rebuilds-feed-the-need-for-speed.html?page=6 11 May 2023 In the long run, I suspect custom Firefox builds created solely for the sake of processor optimization will disappear, especially when Firefox rolls out its own native 64-bit build. (In fact, 64-bit Firefox is already available in the most recent nightly build of version 11.) But for now, there's still a culture of roll-your-own Firefoxers keeping the faith. en Lucian Parfeni Despite Being the Default, IE Users Still Prefer Google to Bing w:Softpedia https://news.softpedia.com/news/Despite-Being-the-Default-IE-Users-Still-Prefer-Google-to-Bing-288907.shtml 29 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120901033008/https://news.softpedia.com/news/Despite-Being-the-Default-IE-Users-Still-Prefer-Google-to-Bing-288907.shtml 1 September 2012 Bing is used by 5.3 percent of Firefoxers. en Josh Constine Install Or Be Annoyed: Google Home Page Nags Firefoxers, Internet Explorers To Switch To Chrome w:TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/firefox-install-google-chrome-home-page/ 4 September 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120905193850/https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/firefox-install-google-chrome-home-page/ 5 September 2012 Install Or Be Annoyed: Google Home Page Nags Firefoxers, Internet Explorers To Switch To Chrome en Evan Dashevsky Hands-on: Mozilla’s Lightbeam is info porn for privacy geeks PCWorld https://www.pcworld.com/article/448295/hands-on-mozillas-lightbeam-is-info-porn-for-privacy-geeks.html 25 October 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20220116231754/https://www.pcworld.com/article/448295/hands-on-mozillas-lightbeam-is-info-porn-for-privacy-geeks.html 16 January 2022 Firefoxers can find the Lightbeam add-on here. en Robert Sorokanich Rabbit Lets You Watch Videos With Friends, No Matter Where They Are w:Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/rabbit-lets-you-watch-tv-with-friends-no-matter-where-1623786571 19 August 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140820023642/https://gizmodo.com/rabbit-lets-you-watch-tv-with-friends-no-matter-where-1623786571 20 August 2014 All you do is hop on to Rabbit's website using Chrome or Opera (sorry, Firefoxers and Safariers), allow access to your camera and microphone, and use the browser-within-a-browser inside the Rabbit window to go wherever you want. en Mark Wilson I tried the Titan Key, the security fob used by 85,000 Google workers w:Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90232158/i-tried-the-titan-key-the-security-fob-used-by-85000-google-workers 6 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180906222617/https://www.fastcompany.com/90232158/i-tried-the-titan-key-the-security-fob-used-by-85000-google-workers 6 September 2018 I was able to set up both the USB and Bluetooth keys in all of a minute through Chrome (Google tells me support for third-party browsers is still in development, all you Firefoxers). en David Canellis This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter TNW https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-cryptocurrency-shill-bias-extension-conflict-of-interest 26 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20210726175305/https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-cryptocurrency-shill-bias-extension-conflict-of-interest 26 July 2021 For those still keen to try it, Chrome users can grab the extension here. Firefoxers can download it here. en Alan Martin Microsoft is making it even harder to avoid the Edge browser in Windows 11 Tom’s Guide https://www.tomsguide.com/news/microsoft-is-making-it-even-harder-to-avoid-the-edge-browser-in-windows-11 16 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211116130514/https://www.tomsguide.com/news/microsoft-is-making-it-even-harder-to-avoid-the-edge-browser-in-windows-11 16 November 2021 While the half-million EdgeDeflector users could be comfortably ignored, hundreds of millions of Firefoxers probably could not be, he speculates.