Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Firefox

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Like all things Microsoft Internet Explorer just keeps getting worse.  I finally gave up on it myself a few months ago and now use Firefox and Opera. I'm not alone - here is a snapshot of Newshoggers viewers:



Browers


And apparently this is not an anomaly:

More Than Half Of Computer Users Now Run Firefox
Statistics from the exo.performance.network indicate that over half of computer users (50.6 percent) are now using the Firefox browser, InfoWorld reports. Despite this, Internet Explorer is still widely used, with 84 percent of users still turning to it �regularly.�

These numbers indicate that a large number of people use more than
one browser. This is hardly surprising, given the addition of newer
browsers like Google Chrome and Safari for Windows, and the recent upgrade of Opera.

As the person who does most of the site management  here at Newshoggers I have all of the Browsers - IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari.  I check any template changes I make in all of them. In the past I to used IE most of the time but as a blogger I need to have several windows and tabs open at the same time and IE will lock up when multiple windows are open, that's assuming it opens at all.  I now use Firefox most of the time although I am using Opera more and more - the recent upgrade makes Opera a real contender unlike the most recent Safari upgrade.  Chrome is just a little too alien/different for me.

I am the computer guy for the 55+ community I live in.  The most common problem I respond to involves Internet Explorer.  The fix is an easy one - I download Firefox and everyone is happy.       



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  1. KatSeptember 17, 2009 at 9:14 PM

    Hilarious! There's one person in the list with an unidentified browser, unidentified version. That's gotta be me -- the only luddite on the planet who's still using AOL. haha
    Kat

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  2. SRW1September 17, 2009 at 11:14 PM

    The fix is an easy one - I download Firefox and everyone is happy.
    You gotta be overlooking Bill Gates.

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  3. HootsbuddySeptember 18, 2009 at 1:26 AM

    Ron, here's a Rocketboom report from June, 2008, that you will love.
    http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_jun_17/
    Your post reminded me. And it was one of the reasons I went to Firefox.
    Rocketboom used to be one of my daily visits but it's like reading the Sunday comics, a guilty pleasure I only enjoy when I'm caught up on other stuff... which seems to be less often. Today's report on emigration from Senegal is a well-done quirky so I'll post it. They seem not to know the difference between immigration and emigration.

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  4. hidflectSeptember 18, 2009 at 1:53 AM

    fcking IE6/7/8. Heap of sh1t. I lost business thanks to those cr@p-artists

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  5. Russ WellenSeptember 18, 2009 at 3:24 AM

    I'd been using Firefox, but I recently switched to Chrome. I know it gives Google even more access to your personal info than it already had, but it works faster for me than Firefox. And has other remarkable features such as, instead of the whole browser crashing, only the site in quesion closes. Small complaint: Neither of them likes iTunes, which I had to stop using completely.

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  6. Dave SchulerSeptember 18, 2009 at 5:30 AM

    I think I can identify myself as the sole viewer using Opera.

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