technology: playing with fire

I have mentioned the irrational hatred that exists for Microsoft in the past, and never is this more prevalent than with Internet Browsers. Yes, IE6 was pretty pants, but IE7 and IE8 weren't bad.
Many years ago I switched to Firefox, and at the time it was much better than Microsofts offerings. But I started to get annoyed by how damned slow Firefox was , it made IE8 seem snappy and caused the only BSODs I have had on Vista and Windows 7. I soon jumped over to Google's Chrome and I have been loving it ever since. I've also had a brief play with IE 9 and it's pretty good to, and I see no real reason why you wouldn't use IE9 to read my musing.

But recently I've been doing some web development and I've been forced to use Firefox, and I've hated every moment of it. It's just so clunky and regularly hangs, it's like using IE6, but atleast with IE6 I was on a 56k dial-up connection so the browser was the least of my problems.
Yet, there are thousands out there who feel they have earned their geek-cred with statements like

IE is junk, Firefox FTW! 

And we all know the EU's opinions on IE, yet they haven't yet explained how you are meant to download their beloved Firefox if Windows didn't ship with IE.

Any unbiased individual will have noticed that Firefox has turned into the buggy, crash prone and incredibly bloated software that the community rightly accused IE of being.
But where Microsoft have learned from the communities concerns, and from Google's barebones Chrome, Mozilla has become complacent while legions of loyal 'fans' spread misinformation as they attempt to make millions join the cult of Firefox. I doubt few of the Firefox users have even used the browsers they claim Firefox is superior to.

So if you are reading this with Firefox, I advise you to quickly download one of the alternatives in the 30 seconds you have before your browser hangs for the 134th time this hour.



Next time, Open Office and why is sucks and GIMP really pisses me off too.