Firefox fanboys again

Now I’ll admit I haven’t always given Firefox a good press. But sometimes I think they don’t set themselves up in the nicest way. The religious fervour of Firefox fans goes to the levels of extremism. Yes, maybe you like it. But it’s a web browser. Get a life.

I had mixed feelings, therefore, reading this post by Ed Bott.

Gee, guess who reserved the following domains:

ie7.com

getie7.com

Hint: It wasn’t Microsoft.

I think one of the comments put it best: (UPDATE: I’ve now added the comment which went before that as it then makes sense.)

Fanboyism at it’s [sic] finest. It will be fun to see Microsoft’s legal hounds jump on this and sue them into oblivion.

The best part about this is that if Microsoft was to do this then they would be ripped a new one by the community. Is it me or does the underdog always end up being just as bad as the supposed Golith they are out to slay?

I suppose Microsoft haven’t exactly been shining examples of good behaviour in the browser wars, but it still annoys me somehow. Maybe I’ve become an IE-fanboy.

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