[Dean C]

Originally Posted by TwinsX2Dad

Mozilla is nothing but a last ditch bit of desperation to save Netscape. With it, you lose ActiveX. You lose other functionalities and you gain a huge hole where Firefox's XPInstall system can be tricked into installing myriad bits of malware. All for what? A gain in tabbed browsing? That is an idea stolen from previous alternate browsers, Opera & Lynx to name two.

Well ActiveX itself is a huge security hole that shouldn't be enabled by default in all browsers IMO. And you can't (by default), install any xpi file in firefox unless you specifically give the site permission to. It doesn't even give you a yes/no box which could confuse the user, it makes a little tab below the tabs bar saying this site was blocked from installing software.

Originally Posted by TwinsX2Dad

So why go through the effort to make something work for less than 2% of the users out there, if you're not a Firefox fan? You don't, especially if you want the features everyone has and everyone wants.

Well for starters there are several benefits of web-standards:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/benefits/

I was not an advocate of such standards for a while, but after a year of playing around I've realised that this is the future of the web (and even present: several large sites such as yahoo, msnbc, msn beta search etc have adopted the move to standards).