Plus, how many YEARS did it take for the "one trick and pony show" to actually get off it's ass and start to have added goodness. Oooooo now it has Tabs. Woopyyyyyy. Old news man, this is standard issue not some novelty. Oooooh and let's not forget all the security issues it has had. And yes Firefox has had it's share. But the Mozilla Foundation sure get on it quite quickly and patches the problem it a very timely fashion (quickly). Sandards compatability? Hmmmmmm, let me see... Oh I forgot this is Microsoft's world so all Web Masters must adhear to the Microsoft way of creating web pages. Let's not go through all the W3C compliance that makes for an across the board (all browsers but IE) easy as pie web site.
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And last, you want to make the browser do what you want? You are a developer and want to tweak it your way? Well hell, here's the source code, have at it make it your own. IE??? Oh hell no, it is Microsoft property we don't want anyone to adjust anything. It's ours... OURS!
You show me where I can imbed a media player into the lower status bar of IE and enjoy music while I surf for pr0n. And no, I don't want to open up Windows Media Player and have to flip from one App to another for the "privilege" of listening to my music while I surf the web.
Long live FoxyTunes!