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NYTimes Reports on Firefox

Soldrinero writes "Just three days after running a community-sponsored two-page ad, the New York Times is now running a news story on Mozilla Firefox. Our favorite browser is presented in a very favorable light, and there's a good discussion on both Firefox's useability-enhancing features and its security merits. Being fair, they also present Microsoft's solution to security problems: 'Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer'"

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  1. Re:Spread Firefox! by StarbuckZero · · Score: 0, Troll

    You must be into that animal farm sex. I don't even want to talk about it anymore because you might get worked up thinking about it.

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  2. And... by fizban · · Score: 0, Troll

    Better headline:

    Slashdot reports on NYTimes reporting on Firefox.

    World goes back to bed.

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  3. Re:What you can do (Re:Word of mouth) by Alsee · · Score: 0, Troll

    I did. And if you use the USer Agent Switcher you can too from their website technical support contact form.

    By the way, my custom setting for user agent switcher is:

    User Agent:
    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; ATTENTION IDIOT WITH BROKEN WEBSITE: Actual User Agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1)

    App Name:
    Microsoft Internet Explorer ATTENTION IDIOT WITH BROKEN WEBSITE: Actual App Name is Netscape

    App Version:
    4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; ATTENTION IDIOT WITH BROKEN WEBSITE: Actual App Version is 5.0 (Windows; ))

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  4. Re:Which IE only sites? by Alsee · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find it rather hysterical that that website actually has a link to get Firefox, yet proudly proclaims that it locks Firefox out of some pages.

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