Certainly both Microsoft and Apple have more money to spend on this than Mozilla. Mozilla may be looking down the road to the end (November of this year) of their current deal with Google that has placement of Google search as the default search - this deal provides almost all Mozilla's revenue. However, it might make sense to knee-cap Mozilla by not renewing the deal, now that Mozilla wants to compete in the mobile OS space.

The only other real potential candidate for the replacement deal is Microsoft, and if they don't bite, then what? After all, Chrome continues to gain market share - it's the default browser on all android devices. Even if Mozilla worked out a deal to make Bing the default search engine in 2015, most Firefox users will just switch it search back to Google - or switch browsers to Chrome.

So, Mozilla needs to do something NOW to preserve it's relevancy over the next 4-year contract term if they want either Google or Microsoft to ink a deal that will keep them anywhere near the lifestyle they've grown used to.

Justin Bieber is to music as Rob Ford is to politics.

Both are Canadians, both have problems with the cops, the people around them, the news media, booze,drugs, inappropriate public behaviour, more money than brains, etc.

Not really. People are fed up with parents that are so insecure in their parenting skills that they're hovering around almost 100% of the time - they're called "helicopter parents" for a reason, and like real helicopters, people in the immediate neighborhood of one don't exactly appreciate their nuisance factor.

Does anyone want to be one of "those parents?" Do you want your kids hanging around with the kids of one of "those parents" as they listen to everything your kids say and then gossip about how bad, how clueless parents you are? Or call CPS on you because they freaked out over something out of context?

Firefox has been well over 20% for years.

IE dropped below 20 percent two years ago.

Of course, you can pick different stats to prove pretty much anything when it comes to the web.

Using W3 counter it could be IE, it could be Safari, it could be Firefox.

But recently both Google and Apple have thrown down the gauntlet with respect to requests by the DoJ. Microsoft could very well be taking a different tack; having your browsing routed through TOR makes it harder to know the contents - until you upload it to "the Cloud" and it sits on the servers unencrypted.

Unleash the "Microsoft is in bed with the NSA" hounds.

Let me fix that for you:

No, idiots are punished for stalking.

People of both sexes lose it and stalk their bosses, their co-workers, family members, classmates and teachers, the clerk working at the local store ... makes no difference what gender or sex the stalker or stalkee are - the stalker is an idiot. Anyone who buys this crap is an idiot. And no, being a "helicopter parent" isn't an exception.

And Justin Bieber is proof that a lack of both doesn't correlate with success.

Today's list is here. Just look for all lines starting with an exclamation mark - they'll tell you the intent of the following lines.

Of course, you're free to edit it to your preferences and restart the browser.

The article was about the trend to not owning stuff, that can be obsoleted by the "real owners" at a whim, because you no longer own it. I made a comparison to cars (because everyone likes car analogies). But it's just an analogy. Push any analogy too far and it breaks. Does that mean we should stop making analogies? No. They're useful for looking at similar situations.

Even consumer car loans, where you own the vehicle but it secures the lien, can have all sorts of restrictions on what you do with the car because they make the security of the loan less secure. Some say you can't use it for commercial service, some say you can't leave the state or country without prior notification, etc.

Would you rather own or lease the OS that came on your computer? "Oh, we no longer support that version, so we upgraded it remotely as per the lease contract. Oh, and the upgrade won't run SimCity, SimCity2K, SimCity300 Unlimited, etc."