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Firefox vs. SP2's IE?

Anonymous Coward asks: "I was at my grandpa's house today, and I came across a somewhat unsettling issue. He is a user of Internet Explorer. I was talking about Firefox with him, and it turns out that he has had no trouble with popups since SP2 came out, he doesn't multitask enough to benefit from tabbed browsing, and he doesn't care about safety/privacy concerns. On top of that, I ran a test and found no difference in load/download speeds between the two browsers on his computer. This brought me to an interesting point. For someone like him, is there any benefit to be gained from using Firefox? On top of that, are there any people who are actually better off sticking with IE?"

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  1. I know people who *love* popup ads by digitalgimpus · · Score: 3, Funny

    No joke...

    - fun to try and close them all... like a game
    - funny ads sometimes
    - interesting products

    To the point where they won't update to SP2 because they think even if you disable popup blocker it still stops some of them.

    Favorite App: gator.

    You'd think this was a joke, but some people actually enjoy it.

    I have a friend who collects spam too.