Or use a clean firefox without extensions.
Of course, without extensions there isn't much that sets firefox apart from chrome except for the license. Some purists will prefer firefox for that reason but it's pretty much a coin toss.
Right on: firefox relative usage peaks during weekends, IE dips during the weekends. It's easily visible in the graphs: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-daily-20080701-20090707
I suspect the problem to be more subtle though. Possibly a change in the useragent string of firefox 3.5 that was not picked up correctly or something like that.
Actually, it was broken, or at least too complex.
For common law people, it's all copyright. The term is 70 years after the maker's death.
In the EU, there are more kinds of copyright. Author's rights are different from performer's and producer's rights. The author's rights already were 70 years. The performer's and producers's rights were "only" 50 years. To a non-lawyer, this was hard to explain.
It's much more logical to award everybody the same protection. That's what happened. I would have preferred if they made our copyright a uniform lower term, but at least it is uniform now.
Gmail is the beta for the Google Apps mail component. It's not likely that it will ever come out of beta status: it being beta has a function.
In our copyright code it is expressly permitted to make a copy of music or movies for one's own use, practice or study. This copy may be made from any source, legal or illegal. The source has no effect on the legal status of the copy.
So not only is it not illegal to copy these works, it is even perfectly legal. However, copying software without permission is almost always illegal.
And yes, I _am_ a Dutch IP lawyer.
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