[quote="minstrel
Gotta disagree with you there. First, because IE is not a piece of crap, although it seems it's fashionable to say so. Second, because the reason people use it isn't simply because they don't know any better: I have both installed... I continue to use IE out of preference.

Firefox is not without it's own bugs, or security vulnerabilities for that matter. There was a time when early versions of IE were pretty horrible and Netscape in those days was far superior but those days are long gone, IMO.
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Wow, I agree with Minstrel, who would believe it :)

Anecdotal: For the non-technical user, who has no inclination toward updating spyware software and uses an old version of anti-virus software and never updates it, Firefox may be the answer. One of my customers related that once his friend installed Firefox, all the problems with spyware and everything on his computer stopped, so he was also interested in it.

I think the best thing Microsoft could do would be to release a version of Internet Explorer with the same things disabled by default as Firefox does. That would solve a multitude of problems.

Professional users and developers could install/enable features and add-ons as needed.

Danno

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