Firefox passes 50 million download mark

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Aflicting the comfortable...

... and comforting the afflicted, yes. There are different ways to make a point, and sometimes exceedingly forthright is clearer.

May not have seemed to you that you were doing so, but you agreed with me.

Look at your logic here:
Are you telling us that you learned IE or Windows for that matter by osmosis? Remember how you learned to use those. The same princible applies here. It is a matter of "want to". Most people I know that have tried Firefox and returned to IE with the learning curve excuse simply do not want to take the time to learn. They are product branded and that is that.

Does the fact that I and everyone else who learns a program had to make an effort obviate my point? Apparently one who sticks with FireFox is "learning", but one who chooses to return to IE is "product branded".
Actually, it's all "learning". Someone who decides that the perceived advantages of FireFox are not sufficient to justify learning another program has made a rational decision.

And I was making the point that making such learning of FireFox easier would encourage people to make the effort.

You agree with that point, too, though you express it in terms of Linux.
You wrote:
I posted a question on a linux group his was the first reply. "Hey NOOB, Google is your friend and do a search of the forum before posting a question." That highy urinated me off and I swore off ever using Linux.

You wanted to shorten the learning curve and were repulsed when there wasn't a way. Then you made a decision that doing it the hard way was worth your time, for some reason. Would have made you more likely to stick if someone helped. right?!

Different words, same point.


Speaking of different words, my last paragraph is true, in my view. Could have put it less confrontationally, and I usually prefer to be non-confrontational. But, as you guessed with the inappropriate word "trolling", which implies faking the content and not just the expression, I decided to afflict the comfortable.

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