Re: OT: Mozilla/Firefox (was:Re: Windoze ends year with a major cert ...)

johnhreinhardt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Bill Gunshannon wrote:

you can complain to has no control over it.  That's reality.  The choice
of IE support to the detriment of all other browsers is as much industry
standard as the x86 architecture, that's reality.  Squeek all you want,
this is yert another place where MS has won and all the squeeking in the
world won't change it until MS is supplanted as the industry standard.


But Bill, how can MS be supplanted if nobody squeeks?

Not a problem: people are squeaking enough already - over 10% Firefox penetration in just a couple of years, and most Web sites started attempting to avoid losing such a non-trivial percentage of their clientele quite a while ago (especially since it's arguably a disproportionally important 10+%). It is *very* rarely that I notice any difficulty using Firefox on any site these days (except, of course, Microsoft's Update site which relies heavily upon ActiveX - though most other Microsoft sites work well enough).

Bill can choose to be a part of that, or not, without making a whit of difference.

- bill
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