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Firefox Community, Sickly Out of Control
darlingbuddy writes "After users started reporting Firefox's 150 million+ downloads, this article mentions why it's a bad move on the community's part. The author writes, "I'm proud of the community that pitched in enough donations for Firefox to get a full-page advertisement in The New York Times print edition, and I'm delighted to see them think of creative ideas for promotion, but reporting total downloads every so often and immaturely degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous. The thing with these numbers is that they are misleading at best, and the only thing they accomplish is immature fanboyism. It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox with its extensive collection of extensions and ability to support qualified web standards, but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?"
how?
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
I get so tired of hearing about the browser war. It's just that, a browser, not the be-all, end-all of human existance. Use what you like and be done with it, because fanboyism sucks...
Gone!
Just include adblock by default in Firefox. Then promote it as one of the advantages of using Firefox over IE.
Mod parent down for thread bare worn out lame attempt at "sarcasm". Parent has nothing to add to discussion
I don't know... I found his comment humourous and dead accurate. He said the story was stupid, and it is. Seems on topic to me... Now you're comment on the other hand...