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How exactly would Microsoft "gobble Firefox up"? It's an open-source browser put out by a non-profit organization.

It's still supported on an opt-in basis. But given that it was prone to numerous security holes and was unused by the vast majority of the web-facing population, the decision was made that it made more sense for those who need it to explicitly turn it on (whitelisted, no less) rather than exposing all users to the risks that come with it.

I would disagree with that statement. While Firefox has lost a bit of market share to Chrome, most of Chrome's gains have come at the expense of IE. Look at the trends.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/internet-explorer-stops-its-slide-as-chrome-nears-firefox.ars

Mozilla does a lot more than just make a web browser.

Mozilla has a pretty extensive automated test infrastructure that runs on every checkin. Also, the major work is done on different project branches and made stable before landing on mozilla-central (the mainline Nightly branch), hence the better stability of the Nightly builds.

Except that there's an Adblock Plus extension for Chrome too...

Those hangs are probably GC pauses, which ironically would be tied to memory usage :-)

Actually, Firefox 3.5 hit EOL (at least from Mozilla) as of the last security update. They will not be updating it further.

I can't speak for the entire college of engineering, but at least in my department, it was typical for the BS (or BS/MS) to take 5 years, with 2 or 3 co-ops depending on whether you're getting the BS or BS+MS.

I wouldn't expect two people to skew a median value significantly when dealing with a population size many orders of magnitude larger than them.

Yay Drexel! (MatE alum here). Surviving the first two years sucks, but it got better after that IMO.

That sounds like an incredibly fragile idea. That said, a lot of work is being done to add Type Inference to the JaegerMonkey engine, which performs static analysis to determine type information.

Same place as always: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Also note that Win2K support will be going away once the switch is made to start compiling with MSVC 2010 instead of 2005. Win2K support in Fx4 is more by accident than by design at this point.