Firefox marketing push

The Firefox crowd is going for a big marketing push to try to get Firefox onto as many desktops as possible. Good luck guys, but as long as Internet Explorer comes with Windows, you're always going to be in a minority. People are just going to use whatever browser works well enough to access the web sites they like. And as long as IE can use ActiveX controls and Firefox can't, Firefox is going to be locked out of the new breed of banking web sites such as First Direct's that use ActiveX to aggregate financial information from other sites.

Although IE is painful and mostly rubbish, it's not so rubbish that people have to turn to another browser. Still, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

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