French cops ditch IE
"The French police force plans to ditch Microsoft's Internet Explorer as its preferred browser software and replace it with Firefox by the end of the year."
While I can write/talk about the security advantages of running Firefox over IE, some people do it, like the French police force. IE 7 has not yet proven that it will fix any of the security problems in IE, which as most of us know stem from ActiveX. But, will Microsoft keep Activex? I think yes, and one big reason is that there are numerous, very large, web sites that use it. For now, I suggest you use Firefox. Of course, you already know that because most people who come to this web site already use Firefox (In January 2006):
# Hits User Agent
1 15284 12.21% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko
2 8256 6.59% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
3 7481 5.98% iTunes/6.0.1 (Windows; N)
4 6066 4.85% FeedDemon/1.5 (http://www.bradsoft.com/; Microsoft Windows XP
5 4835 3.86% SharpReader/0.9.6.0 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032; WinNT 5.1.2600.0
6 4283 3.42% iTunes/6.0.2 (Macintosh; N; PPC)
7 3963 3.17% NetNewsWire/2.0.1 (Mac OS X; http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
8 3521 2.81% iTunes/6.0.2 (Windows; N)
9 3366 2.69% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
10 3356 2.68% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.3)
So your job now is to spread the word to all those IE users :)
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