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1. Comment - Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US

   (Jul 11, 2006 - 5:47 AM)

   Nobody mentioned it, but for some of us, it is the most important factor:
   Firefox is free software: You can use it, for any purpose, you can copy it to your friends, you can study how it works and made all the modifications you want, you can distribute the modifications.
   IE and Opera are not free software. I would not use them no matter what.
   Personally, I use Konqueror, it is faster and better integrated with my desktop (KDE). Otherwise I use Firefox.
   
   Another important factor for which I consider Firefox acceptance great is because Firefox is much more standard than IE. Today many web-designers make IE-only web pages without realizing it (I won't consider a web-designer a professional one unless he understands standards, like the ones at w3.org). That leads to a monopoly of IE and since IE interpret some things wrong, that means that when developing web sites you have to expend lots of time braking your site to make it fit with a broken IE; last time I measured it, it was 50% of the project time, the other 50% included programming, database design, standard validation, testing, etc.
   I eventually left the web business and started looking for something else. Seeing Firefox rise makes me wonder if I'd come back to web some day.