http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-69479 Make You Go Hmm: » Newsgator and Google privacy concerns raised by Hmm reader Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:59:46 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-69479 [...] Yesterday I realized my primary browser in Windows was Firefox and was curious what other readers were using. This morning an interesting comment came in from a Hmm reader who points out that he uses Firefox primarily for security reasons. This is why many cite Firefox as being inherently better than IE, but Firefox hasn’t been without its share of security woes. [...] […] Yesterday I realized my primary browser in Windows was Firefox and was curious what other readers were using. This morning an interesting comment came in from a Hmm reader who points out that he uses Firefox primarily for security reasons. This is why many cite Firefox as being inherently better than IE, but Firefox hasn’t been without its share of security woes. […]

]]> http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-42212 Make You Go Hmm: » Driving a truck through Internet Explorer to Google Desktop Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:23:44 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-42212 [...] As for IE? Is this really Microsoft’s fault? Popular opinion is yes, it’s their fault, blame it on the Death Star, but I’m not putting the blame solely at their doormat because Firefox has had problems too. Fill in the blank, so have others. Browsers seem to be the #1 source these days of intruder alert. Maybe it’s time to put all the browsers in the recycle bin trash can and adopt something different/new and less hacker proof. Boy, what an undertaking that would be! [...] […] As for IE? Is this really Microsoft’s fault? Popular opinion is yes, it’s their fault, blame it on the Death Star, but I’m not putting the blame solely at their doormat because Firefox has had problems too. Fill in the blank, so have others. Browsers seem to be the #1 source these days of intruder alert. Maybe it’s time to put all the browsers in the recycle bin trash can and adopt something different/new and less hacker proof. Boy, what an undertaking that would be! […]

]]> http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-17537 Make You Go Hmm: » Microsoft: Firefox officially competition Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:09:57 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050510/1832/#comment-17537 [...] The year plus time between now and Vista when the real Internet Explorer successor comes along might be just enough time for Firefox to tip the scales, but they have to try and avoid critical bugs like earlier this year. If I had to lay money on which browser will control over 50% of the market by this time next year, I’d chicken out and call it a tie or if pressed, give the nod to Microsoft. [...] […] The year plus time between now and Vista when the real Internet Explorer successor comes along might be just enough time for Firefox to tip the scales, but they have to try and avoid critical bugs like earlier this year. If I had to lay money on which browser will control over 50% of the market by this time next year, I’d chicken out and call it a tie or if pressed, give the nod to Microsoft. […]

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