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Jon M · 17-09-2004, 08:14

This shouldn't be a M$ vs. Mozilla argument, most people unless they're a sheep or very weird would only switch from a program that they are familiar and happy with if the alternative was offering better features and ease of use.
Personally, it took me far longer to switch over from IE than most of my techie peers because I had found several front-ends to IE that suited me, it was purely on the basis of features that I switched, not because I had some mis-guided notion that I'm intelligent enough to understand all the security vunerabilities of each of them.
Security, as I've said in previous IE vs. the world threads is definately an issue, but a secondary one for most people.

17-09-2004, 08:14	#30
Jon M Inactive Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Midlands Age: 48 Services: Rural BB - Radio Link via Virgin Fibre Posts: 2,947	Re: Spread Firefox: Now we can all get involved This shouldn't be a M$ vs. Mozilla argument, most people unless they're a sheep or very weird would only switch from a program that they are familiar and happy with if the alternative was offering better features and ease of use. Personally, it took me far longer to switch over from IE than most of my techie peers because I had found several front-ends to IE that suited me, it was purely on the basis of features that I switched, not because I had some mis-guided notion that I'm intelligent enough to understand all the security vunerabilities of each of them. Security, as I've said in previous IE vs. the world threads is definately an issue, but a secondary one for most people.