First - all those apps in Google app market place? They run in Firefox, because, well, they're web apps!
Second - all those web apps by MS (Office, Outlook, Hotmail, etc)? Yup, they run in Firefox too, perfectly!
Third - millions of people use the vast array of great Firefox extensions everyday, and they work great. And Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera all offer extensions, but not nearly as good or numerous as those of Firefox.
Fourth - Firefox 4 is damn fast, in start up, page rendering, and Javascript processing. True, Chrome and IE might have slight (in milliseconds) speed advantages. But for all the functionality and customizability you get with Firefox, the few milliseconds difference is completely negligible.
Fifth - Firefox is rock solid with standards (only exceeded by Chrome), and is rock solid with web page rendering and compatibility. Basically, everything I ever throw at Firefox renders properly, where as IE and Chrome have occasional glitches.
Sixth - Firefox 4 is a major reworking of a lot of internals, the javascript engine, add-ons architecture, so this release had an appropriately long gestation period to get it right (Microsoft could learn from this). But now that the major internal overhaul is done, there will fast releases of new versions - 5, 6 and 7 are all planned to be released this year. That is a fast release cycle
Seventh (and finally) - Firefox has already gotten 7.1 million downloads, dwarfing IE's 2.1.
I also enjoy using both Chrome 10 and IE9. I particularly preferred them prior to the release of Firefox 4, because Firefox 3.6 was getting a bit long on the tooth, and heavy, and not as fast.
But Firefox 4 has really put it back in the game.
It's also nice to use a browser produced by an independent, non-profit organization, who have the open web in mind with all of their releases. I can't ever fully trust browsers from the big corps.
Yes, congratulations to Ed Bott for getting page hits and lots of comments (including mine). I got suckered in with his completely stupid flame bait. But c'mon. Get a flipping clue. Really, the ignorance, and MS fanboyism, of Ed Bott's post is truly astounding.
Too bad, because, even though I know that Ed Bott is a big MS guy, I usually find his posts to be pretty well thought out.
Not this one. Not by a long shot.
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