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1. Comment - Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US

   (Jul 18, 2006 - 11:39 AM)

   Go and ask the average IE user what medium security is and MS wonders why so many viruses move about the web... Its just a great big steaming pile of crap that keeps morphing every 3 years...Windows is like an incubator for viruses and it just gets worse!

2. Comment - Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US

   (Jul 18, 2006 - 11:30 AM)

   The words IE in the introductory web page just made me close my FF tab as soon as my eyes passed over it! Also if its based on the IE code then its an offshoot of MS which means its just another IE in disquise trying to hi-jack users away from whatever browser they are using...
   
   Damn! I bet those guys had to sign their eye sockets over to microsoft when they copied that code!? Who in their right mind would base a new browser on IE code!?
   
   What an utter waste of money and development time!?

3. Comment - Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US

   (Jul 18, 2006 - 11:14 AM)

   but that is where the myth rears its ugly head...Tell me what you use Windows for that you can't do with Linux? Linux is surpassing Windows in leaps and bounds, especially over the last year...anyone who can't get Linux working for them just don't know how to place DVD linux installation discs into DVD readers!?
   
   There are multiple live installation that you can try out that let you just boot straight from the disk and if you don't like then you can just remove the disk...
   
   Alot of people say that they have to tweek the inner workings to get everything just right but let me remind you all that you have to do **exactly the same** with windows its just because Microsoft has a hold over the distributors that they must pre-install windows...which has been fully tweeked by the time you buy it...this is something, finally, that is being knocked on the head...
   
   I just think that windows is going in the wrong direction and Linux is becoming a defacto standard. Ahh man its like a breath of fresh air when I start my Linux servers...nice, clean, fast and virus free...lovely!
   
   I also do web development and one of the main reasons why IE is such a constant high ranking browser is because it tiptoes round proper cache handling...I have seen IE request data from the server even though the cache version as not expired...and I won't even talk about the VARY header which will only work correctly if it just specfies the USERAGENT as the header that was used to return the content...it just ignores anything else in here and on some versions will crash if you put anything other than USERAGENT or * in the vary header.
   
   IE ignores caching in subtle ways that make it basically hit your server more than if your clients where any other browser so it makes it look like more clients are accessing your webserver with IE...you have to specifically code for IE caching if you want to make sure that your caches are not continually wacked over with IE clients...bloody thing!

4. Comment - Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US

   (Jul 18, 2006 - 11:06 AM)

   Thats not quite true...because windows is more vulnerable at the moment than any other operating system. Even microsoft uses Linux behind the scenes to protect its networks...
   
   I have been administering and re-installing windows for years and I am contantly tweeking firewalls to stop malicious windows viruses. Its not just because it used more...it basically boils down to the unmaintainable code base which is now just becoming a huge burden for microsoft.
   
   I also hate the way that windows os trys to call back home with all your information. The EULA is a damn menace in disguise...Any new company that is starting up would do well to go straight with linux...I only have one windows machine at home that I keep for testing web sites with IE...IT IS NOT USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE...I use Linux on everything else...if I can help it I leave the windows machine gathering dust as much as possible because its just so damn useless to use...
   
   Plus...phew getting there...I just don't like the Microsoft.