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After that last post, I had an idea for a possible solution. If every geek were to install Firefox on every Windows computer that they are ever asked to fix, eventually we will have Firefox on every computer.

Of course, that won’t guarantee that people will use it - after all, given the choice between “Internet Explorer” and “Mozilla Firefox”, which do you think Joe Schmoe is going to choose when he wants to explore the internet? To him, “Mozilla” and “Firefox” are just gibberish. That is just bad marketing.

Let’s make a re-branded version of Firefox, called something like “The Internet”. With a neat, internety-looking icon. Then we’ll install it on every Windows computer in the world. And people will use it, because it’s called “The Internet”. What should I do to look at my hotmail? Ah! I’ll just open “The Internet”! Easy peasy.

Then, maybe Internet Explorer will finally go away.