Firefox passes 50 million download mark

We are going to see a lot of FireFox flaws and I can't wait for the anti-MS people to start bad mouthing it as vehemently as they do Internet Explorer.

I have seen bad implimentation on FF (like the foreign url support that could help phishers render sites that looked like eaby.com when they were something else... I also saw many firefox users ask them why this wasn enabled by default and critisize it. The group that I most see deny any real problems with tehir software as the ms shills..

The U.S. Air Force doesn't agree with you.

We have a time keeping app that requires ie6, this does not make ie6 more secure or easier to use than firefox, it just means that this app uses things that only render properly on that engine. Your logic that people who use it think its more secure if not very good..

The other reason for desktop standards is simplicity, even if all but one app work fine in multiple browsers you want to keep an attack profile as thin as you can so you limit it to the one browser. Hell I dont use ie for anything but our time collection (I dont use windows for much more than that) but out corporate standard for non it folks is ie only because of that one app..

For one reason because we like choice in the market place, we like products to play off of, pressure, and push eachother to change and improve. MS is finally doing some house cleaning on ie only because they are seing market share evaporate at an alarming rate to firefox.

I was thrilled when MS entered the browser market back in the day netscape had had it too easy and were not longer innovating at the rate they were capable, ms fellinto the same trap..

Thats not true, a basic hello world page will be the same no matter what but try to put a transparent png into a page and render in ie6, try creating tables with empty cells and render in ff vs ie6. There are differences..

to top it off for the longest time microsoft put its own jvm out with ie that would have apps work there that would be fubar with suns..

Gentoo is very difficult for the average Linux user to use because it currently has no installer. Here is the current set of instructions for how to set it up. They're not too hard, but you have to know Linux more than in passing to set it up. For me, the only part that sucks is setting up my 21.3" LCD because xorgconf is fairly tempermental about configuring it.

Also, Gentoo can take the better part of an entire day to install unless you opt for the binary package CDs. I usually install straight from source because by the time you run "emerge --sync" after installation, chances are you'll have to rebuild everything from scratch again. The upside is that it tends to perform better under pressure and I think part of that is due to some patches from the Gentoo team.

The biggest advantage though is that Portage has such a huge library. You can choose archaic versions of most Linux tools or you can go bleeding edge. AFAIK, Gentoo was the first major distribution to support X.Org 6.8.2, which was a fairly significant release.

I'd recommend you try out VidaLinux instead. It uses Fedora's installer and configuration tools and is easy to get used to. It also seems to have an almost perfect compatability with Gentoo, unlike Mandrake and RedHat these days.

I agree with your posts. The problem is when people get all emotional about it. I choose what I like, and although I will listen to what others say and try other OS's, I don't like being told that I am a sheep or ignorant because, thus far, I think MS has the best system for my needs.

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