Now who are the fools who paid for this so desperately-needed research? Oh yeah. My own government. Once again.

I take it you haven't actually used XFCE. I prefer KDE but XFCE is probably the fastest of all those mentioned in the survey.

Yep. Firefox is far superior to Chrome. You can customize almost anything in Firefox and nothing in Chrome.

Use Firefox. They have the same idiocy (mapping back to backspace - which I can't stand either) but at least you can turn it off. Almost nothing in Chrome is customizable. Why it has such a large following is beyong me.

Like Microsoft and Google. Thread after thread after thread about the same problems and none of them get solved because the company (apparently) doens't bother to read them.

They're very happy to see that your $100 is disposable. Now instead of building products that work as expected and actually last longer than a few years, they can count on you coming back for more, $100 bill in hand. Sucker.

I'm pretty sure most if not all American retailers will take it back too.

Period.

The usual story burglary victims hear is that they'll likely never get their stuff back. I can install a GPS transmitter inside one of my computers or my guitar. As a ham radio operator, I can use APRS which is trackable almost anywhere. Very interesting.

So there are laws which dictate which hard drives and/or appliances store data relative to the OS? They can still be in the same room if that's the concern but if there are laws that actually say "x, y, and z must be stored on the same partition as the operating system" then I say they get what they deserve and perhaps those laws need to be re-examined.

Google has a history of constantly tweaking their applications to the point of breaking them and/or making them less useful. There is a reason why the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" exists. The only thing they seem to get right is search. Yeah, Maps and Earth work well, unless your using Linux or an Android smartphone. Maybe they should focus on fixing bugs instead of creating new ones.

Well said. Dumbing-down technology will likely have the same effect as dumbing-down education. Dumber people!

Looking at Windows 8, I think you mean the current Microsoft.

I doubt this is an issue for most people. They're used to long URLs, they've been around for decades now. Google is just arrogant. They make buggy software and they're constantly looking for ways to change things (gotta keep all those worker bees busy) and they end up making their software worse (like Google Maps). There are many reasons why I prefer Firefox over Chrome and this will be one more to add to my list. My only worry is Mozilla's latest "me too!!" push to make Firefox look like Chrome. God help me if it starts acting like Chrome.

Probably written in India.