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I do not specifically hate Microsoft. I dislike many Microsoft products as I find them of poor quality. I do not personally know anyone who has switched back to IE after starting to use an alternative. You have heard of them. They are that rare. I have heard of pygmees and tribes living in the jungle.
As far as I am concerned many Microsoft products hide their fundamental flaws behind a giant screen of superficial flaws. You never really see the rotten core, because there is always a neat little fix for the specific problem you are having.
I'll gladly admit that some pages loads faster in IE while other load faster in Firefox. However if I happen to be on a site that loads a bit slower on Firefox it matters little, because hey I have tapped browsing.
I have used both products and not just "tried them out". I won't go back to IE. Not unless they change their attitude on a number of important issues such as compatibility to standards, object-oriented programming for scripts and numerous other small issues (something similar to XUL would be nice).
If the day dawns were Firefox is larger than IE AND (this is highly speculative) suffers equally from security issues I may have to reconsider on that issue. But that is NOT the case at present.


Hopefully it is clear that I have stated all of this as an opinion. It is not my intention to make anybody start using Firefox.

I'll leave this subject alone for now. Hopefully we can agree that consensus is hardly posible so there is really no point in discussing it any further.