Lets wait until 2010 when it will actually be better and stick to IE which is better now.
I think you're missing a fundamental point here, at least in my experience. I use Firefox everywhere I can, even at work (run through.cmd script), but sometimes I'm forced to use IE. It's so hard to use IE after using Firefox, I feel like I'm being forced back to the stoneage of browsing productivity.
One issue is the Tabs, but there's more than this. The Extensions system is very very nice, especially the Mouse Gestures extension. How many times has someone here used IE after a while of using Firefox and you find yourself right-clicking dragging-up on URLs to open them in tabs and it takes you a few seconds to figure out that this is not Firefox anymore?
I mean I use Betas of Firefox and sometimes not everything works until the Final releases. Yes there's even the usual security patches which is expected, but as long as my Mouse Gestures works then I'm fine. Productivity has increased with Firefox, why would you ever want go back to IE? Even if IE7 has tabs, what about Mouse Gestures and the customization possibilities?
I agree with the parent. Now all we need is for these things to use flesh as fuel and me and my tin-foil hat are moving to Alaska or somewhere these things can't get me. I mean what if that's an alternate powersupply (flesh) to their power grid thingy, the power goes out, and they all start sucking people dry?...excuse my paranoia (am I joking? lol), but this kind of thing would worry me if it ever got used for biotechnology and manipulating cells and so forth.
Remember this story from a year ago?: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/0 8/221212&tid=216&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14
I believe that if the best part of waking up is Foldgers in your cup, then that's a really sad reason to wake up and a sad life in general. The best part of waking up should be reading slashdot in the morning!
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I think you're missing a fundamental point here, at least in my experience. I use Firefox everywhere I can, even at work (run through .cmd script), but sometimes I'm forced to use IE. It's so hard to use IE after using Firefox, I feel like I'm being forced back to the stoneage of browsing productivity.
One issue is the Tabs, but there's more than this. The Extensions system is very very nice, especially the Mouse Gestures extension. How many times has someone here used IE after a while of using Firefox and you find yourself right-clicking dragging-up on URLs to open them in tabs and it takes you a few seconds to figure out that this is not Firefox anymore?
I mean I use Betas of Firefox and sometimes not everything works until the Final releases. Yes there's even the usual security patches which is expected, but as long as my Mouse Gestures works then I'm fine. Productivity has increased with Firefox, why would you ever want go back to IE? Even if IE7 has tabs, what about Mouse Gestures and the customization possibilities?
I agree with the parent. Now all we need is for these things to use flesh as fuel and me and my tin-foil hat are moving to Alaska or somewhere these things can't get me. I mean what if that's an alternate powersupply (flesh) to their power grid thingy, the power goes out, and they all start sucking people dry? ...excuse my paranoia (am I joking? lol), but this kind of thing would worry me if it ever got used for biotechnology and manipulating cells and so forth.
Remember this story from a year ago?: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/0 8/221212&tid=216&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14
I believe that if the best part of waking up is Foldgers in your cup, then that's a really sad reason to wake up and a sad life in general. The best part of waking up should be reading slashdot in the morning!