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>>akyuu+(OP)
It would be really bad if everyone used Firefox - just as it would be very bad if everyone used Chrome (or even any other browser based on the same rendering engine).

We all absolutely do benefit greatly from having multiple competing browsers and render engines - regardless of which one we individually prefer to use.

Therefore I really don't understand the many, many, many "my-browser-is-better-than-yours-you-should-switch" comments in this thread here. Why's everyone trying to convince everyone else that they should use the one and only "best" browser too? What for?

Are people truly that desperate for confirmation and validation, that they need others to agree on their choice of browser?

>>hooby+Nq
Browser wars are almost as old as the internet. There was even a time when people would put little rectangle animated gifs at the bottom of their websites saying things like "Best viewed with Netscape!" or "MSIE SUX!" or "Best Viewed with MSIE!" and then after a while those evolved into memes and then they vanished. There would be flamewars on Usenet about which browser is better. It isn't just browsers. There's tabs-vs-spaces. Scripting language vs scripting language. Meat vs plants. I think this would be best answered by a psychologist. I am curious what the personal preference wars will look like in another 20 years. Maybe "Real human skin vs. synthetic skin on my LoveDroid!"