Extension-free firefox gives you the same features as IE with a better rendering engine and less bugs.

Extensions like firebug and others give you the addition of things not provided by any Microsoft software. Though by the knowledge demonstrated in your comment, you may not believe that software exists outside of microsoft.

Sounds like a personal problem. I walk around with 10" in my pocket every day.

And those hands are questionable. The browser doesn't really lead in any area. They are not pushing the standards compliance front (see the ACID tests). They are not leading the speed or javascript fronts. They have been resting on their plugin laurels. The bureaucracy is heavy (see firefox vs debian). The code itself is heavy. (the reason why webkit is chosen over gecko) And Asa, mozilla chief fanboi, thinks microsoft is a more trustworthy partner moving forward than google is. (see the bing recommendation)

If Chrome gets a good plugin API and continues down the multiplatform path, firefox is toast.

It will be just like telephone and now health care. The people who want the service enough to buy it will be taxed to provide the service for people who don't care enough to buy it on their own.

BTW, his use of the word 'holocaust' was entirely appropriate. 'Holocaust' is not a word that has been reserved exclusively for the Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. If people are dying in their hundreds every day at the hands of profit making health insurance extortionists, then to call it a holocaust is putting it fucking mildly.

Yeah...paying for services and free emergency room service for everyone who can't is a true holocaust. Way to put it "fucking mildly."

Getting sick and dying is natural.

Gassing 6 million scapegoats is not.

Get some perspective.

He can also be a jackass. Jail for a website?

If only congress had people like him who were standing up on the right side of the issues. This and other comments (health care == Holocaust??) show he's a nut.

*sarcasm* Thanks Florida.

If you don't like it, don't use it.

Your stupid faux outrage over you posting your own pics on an internet site designed to share pics.

Just STFU. "Civil libertarians" are fucktards.

The emails were found in Sandy Berger's underpants.

Maybe MS thought it was MIT/BSD licensed because this is what you get when you use that license.

There are several quality open source programs I always use on Windows. Most know the big ones...Firefox and OpenOffice. Open Source advocates need to familiarize yourself with http://www.fs-driver.org. They have created an ext2 driver for windows. If this driver gains in popularity, it will be one less "Microsoft tax" you pay on your gadgetry.

You completely missed the "encourage the development of open source software" part of the grandparent post.

The GPL doesn't allow conversion to BSD/MIT because it would be way too easy to go GPL to BSD/MIT to Closed.

To reiterate, the GPL encourages the development of open source software. This is intentional and highly desired by software authors who use the license. If you don't like it, write your own code under your license of choice.

For me, hitting delete in IrfanView deletes the file. Then I hit space to go on to the next image in the folder. It's a little odd because I figured delete would auto-advance the viewer but now the quirk is second nature.

Find a distro from the same era. Redhat 2.1 (and I'm not talking redhat enterprise 2.1) circa 1995 will install and give you an X environment. Maybe even good old 3.03 would fit the bill.