AC, that's where.

Yes NoScript uses a whitelist. I have as many things diabled as possible for sites not on the whitelist, but the ones on function as if I did not have NoSript.

http://browserfame.com/38/firefox-addon-usage-stats
85% Firefox users have at least one add-on installed

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/year-of-extensions.html
one-third Chrome users use extensions

I can't find any data about IE "add-on/extension" usage nor could I locate a place on their site to look for plugins and as I do not run Windos not IE I do not know if it is in some menu somewhere, though I can get to chrome's and firefox's add ons from any browser. I know some exist and I have found few sites with lists of them, but due to the lack of ease finding them I figure most users wouldn't use them. (not that my guesses are worth much)

It would more accurately represent the browsers if firefox and chrome were tested with popular extensions installed as they could cause more security threats or in the case of noscript or adblock plus lessen them. (though noscript only has around a million users and adblock plus only eleven million.

Yes if it was a test between the vanilla browsers to see those differences then add ons and extension should of course not be included, but as it was a test of security their data is possibly skewed in favor of firefox and/or chrome/chromium/iron.

WOT may filter out most malware sites, but unfortunately top users use mass rating tools and sometimes rate sites as poor or unsafe just because someone had a differing viewpoint. Sometimes even down-rating sites affilated with mal-rated sites.

I'd like to know what version of Firefox you are using where the tabs moved and the search and url bars are combined. Tha Help: About section in Firefox says my version is 8.0, whereas the most recent version from Mozilla is 8.0.1.

I'd like a search urlbar combination, though I would like one that uses Google Instant.

I am not sure why redefining the lower bound of "special" is necessary. Out of all the planets scientists have observed, Earth is the only one that can support our form of life. Would that not make Earth a special planet, at least from our perspective?

Though after the 0.5 baby joke I am unsure if your were joking.

I think they just mistook the singularity of Jupiter for the plurality of planets. The mistake is common in the speech that I hear on a day-to-day basis, and then I realized you posted as Anonymous Coward...

That and honestly I would very much like the removal of different spellings of a word based on plurality. "Two cat is fighting in the alley". Of course that desire only arose after beginning to study Japanese.

Hmm... Food must be cheap where I live; we spend 200$ - 240$ for five people for two weeks. Two slightly "larger" adults, one small adult and two teenagers...

No, just no.

"Pirated" copies do not use the original producers resources nor do they diminish them in ANY way.

Economically (in respect to the original producing company), there is no difference between a person who does not buy and does not listen/watch/read/etc the media, and a person who obtains and "consumes" an unofficial copy.

Technically even stealing a copy from Wal-mart wouldn't be stealing from the original producing company as the product has already changed hands and has been paid for.

I'm not even going to get into the moral side of the argument because I am not informed enough to do so, but every time I hear or read of someone trying to say torrenting / downloading is stealing it makes me metaphorically want to punch a baby.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/steal
First entry for steal:

to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.

The watch in the example was indeed stolen; the owner had one less watch and the thief had one more. In the case of torrented or downloaded data the original producer does not lose a copy, but one who downloads gains a brand new copy created with the resources of whomever is seeding the torrent or hosting the download. IT IS NOT STEALING!

Yes it is copyright infringement, but as that was not what you were saying the point is moot.

Oh and after re-reading your post I found something, that I believe to be a mistake, that brings a great big smirk to my face. :)
You:"It is equivalent to going into a music store and taking a copy off the racks and walking about without paying."
Emphasis on "walking about"; it is not theft until you leave the store.

I think I tripped...

Come now, that's similar to placing prerequisite the ability to switch a steering wheel from the right side of a vehicle to the left or switching from a steering wheel to a game-pad to be allowed to operate said vehicle.

Honestly, if one can simply switch distributions and be pacified by the default GUI, why should one take the time to change the GUI after every install and possibly upgrade? I can see if there are dependencies in a specific repository and one doesn't want to compile all the time, but if someone had specific needs like that they would be able to change the GUI easily.

Nope, sorry, works in Firefox insofar as it shows people's feet making letters, which I assume ( as I only checked in Firefox) is what it is supposed to do.