Mozilla Browser Approaches 1 Billion Downloads
Wow. It seems like just yesterday I squealed in glee when I realized there was a browser that might could actually put Microsoft’s incompetent Internet Explorer out of its buggy misery. Not that I needed to bother. For years as a dual PC/Mac user, eeking out enough space for that extra piece of clunky machinery also known as a PC, I spent most of my free hours squirreled away on the Mac. But there were times when I needed the PC. Like for Minesweeper.
Okay, and Tetris.
But being forced in those uber-productive moments to surf on the ol’ PC, I had to run the regular IE gauntlet of pop-ups, dead crashes, and mysterious error logs that were the comprehensible equivalent of the Beatles singing backwards. Yeah, I spent a lot of time calling Bill Gates the anti-Christ. And wondering why Microsoft didn’t have the presence of mind to start from scratch on a browser instead of recycling this 40-story monstrosity that used the elevator equivalent of a dumbwaiter for programming architecture.
So seeing that Firefox is about to hit a billion downloads, I’m giggling a little bit. And crossing my fingers Google is as smart as we all think, and has a big surprise waiting for Bing.
Hey Microsoft. Decision THIS.
