[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Firefox makes a dent. The giant has noticed.

[D-fendr]

they gonna decouple it from the OS?

[Turbopilot]

It's good that Microsoft is focusing on increased browser security, although for me personally to switch back from Firefox IE7 would have to be better than Firefox, not just "as good". I also use a lot of Firefox extensions and would want at least the same level of customizability out of any other browser before I'd switch.

Out of curiosity, though, why is browser share so important? Both IE and Firefox, as well as the other competing browsers of which I'm aware, are given away free (and in the case of IE included free on every PC sold). Why would either care about market share of a product that earns no revenues? I think if I were MS I'd leave very simple browser functionality in Windows. It could be limited to viewing HTML in a My Computer window or something, that would be secured because it wouldn't support Java, ActiveX, or anything else that could contain malicious code. Get rid of IE, reassign the employees on the IE project to areas that generate revenue, and let other people make advanced web browsers for free.

[Panerai]

"The big point is that IE's been losing market share to Mozilla's Firefox," - When you go Firefox, you don't go back.

[martin_fierro]

Yeah, I tried the new MSIE beta and still prefer Firefox.

Couldn't uninstall the MSIE beta fast enough.