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market balance is unstoppable

as the 7 readers of this blog know (up from 5, proud to announce), i’ve been a strong supporter of MS and its internet explorer, puzzled by the rabidity of some netscape and firefox fans.

after finally checking out firefox last month, i decided to use it for blogger.com (my blog’s front end), but that’s all, since it’s at least twice as fast as IE at blogger.com. i didn’t add it to my surf corral because of security or other hype; logic and human nature ensured that firefox would become a bigger target as it caught on and was scrutinized more seriously. so i’m not surprised by this announcement, but i hope it slows down some of the MS bashers who’ve used more venom than sense.

despite its brush with reality, mozilla still links to this hype.

i hope all firefox nazis will shove this quote from mozilla with deserved gusto:

Mozilla is aggressively working to provide a more comprehensive solution to these potential vulnerabilities and will provide that solution in a forthcoming security update. Users can further protect themselves today by temporarily disabling JavaScript.

oh? imagine that! sounds like microsoft talking.

no thanks; i’ll use firefox for blogger.com only, and stick with the battle-hardened IE for everything else. funny how knowledge of economics brings stability and comfort (well, except for the USG-thugs-knocking-on-your-door part).

all hail firefox and microsoft (and the rest of ‘em).

Posted 20050510 05:10 under firefox, microsoft. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “market balance is unstoppable”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    May 10th, 2005 at 14:35

    The only extent to which IE is “battle-hardened” is the extent to which a tech-savvy, small minority of its users have had to learn how to harden it in self-defense, because its owners sure didn’t ship it that way. Let’s just hope Microsoft learns its lessons with IE7; but I’m not holding my breath until then. As to Firefox, “Browsers have no business launching arbitrary executable programs. Period.” Mark Odell

  2. saltypig Says:
    May 10th, 2005 at 22:03

    yep. that’s exactly the battle-hardened i was referring to — the kind firefox is going to build soon.
    ; )

  3. Happy Curmudgeon Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 10:17

    Opera, anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

  4. saltypig Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 13:47

    is that you, john wayne? is this me?

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