World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7

[Amaris]

There is almost a contradiction in this. Firefox used to be fast. Now it is slow. Oh, yes it produces the pages correctly, but it just takes forever. When I had Firefox 3.6 on my old PC and dial-up, I had no problem with page load (512mb mem and 1ghz). Now with my laptop with its 2ghz proc and and 4gig mem with Firefox 11, it takes forever to load pages.

I use Internet Exploder just so they come up faster. They may not look the same, but they are at least readable.

K-Meleon is a good alternative to Firefox if you want something Mozilla based, yet light on the resources. It's not as versatile when it comes to extensions, but it's a very fast browser, and easy to use without bogging your system down.

Check it out: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

 

[sojourner]

with Firefox 11, it takes forever to load pages.

Get Firefox 13.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Firefox has always been fast for my uses. I certainly wouldn't want to use any other browser. Google Chrome's privacy issues are questionable, and Safari won't even work for some of the sites I visit.

Thankfully, the Mac has been free from Internet Exploiter for some time now.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Let's put a tax on everything you don't want people to be using. Guns. Alcohol. Salt. Red meat. Non-Apple products. Just pick a lobby and get it done that the competitor products are taxed.

Yeah, what he said.

If these folks are turning such a high profit on their web sales operation that they can afford the loss of business, let 'em. The marvelous thing about competition is that if this idea really sucks it'll cost them.

Sadly, with actual taxes we don't get a choice.