When it rains it poures :)

I find that a lot of these articles are like "People are saying to switch from IE, but..." which isn't as good as "People are saying to switch from IE, we agree".

The recent articles helped me get my mom, my aunt and my wife to switch.
One at a time can still change the world ...

I believe the current surge in "anti"-IE press is going to play greatly in favor of Mozilla, with the release of Firefox 1.0 just a few months away.

Even with the release of XP SP2, you can count on other IE vulnerabilities being discovered and exploited, and the press is bound to warn its readers, since it seems it has become somewhat of a trend. Besides, let's not forget that non-XP users _won't_ get protected by SP2, and they're a pretty hefty amount of users too (the people at the place I'm working at use NT 4.0, and alternatively Windows 2000 on a few select machines). This group of users is bound to do the switch pretty easily, I'm sure.

I was also quite please by a line from one of the EWeek articles:

"I don't have time today to deal with the fundamentally inane idea that security by obscurity is somehow the best way to secure software."

That one line is a winner as far as I'm concerned. There's enough FUD around Mozilla being safe from attacks only because only a small percentage use it, already. I'd love to see more reporters discard that rumor.

The bigger problem with the current press is about reaching the average user, though. Seriously, the random guy doesn't know about ActiveX or anything close to it, let alone Windows Update. Unless he knows someone who's somewhat of a Mozilla evangelist, how will he discover Firefox? Reading those articles won't enlighten him since they don't make any kind of sense to him. I believe this kind of isolated IE user is the hardest one to reach.

I can only hope Mozilla's marketing team will come up with some brilliant ideas with time to reach all and every user on the 'net. ;-)

Well markus the most effective way of changing the marketplace is going after the top. Governments, companies, universities and web developers. Convince them and they will convince random Joe user.

gotta love this
http://channelzone.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1620144,00.asp
Cuts to the chase in first sentence-IE is just too dangerous

Asa,

maybe you could speed up the page loading and also save yourself some bandwidth by reducing the number of days shown on your front page.

if you were to show only 2 weeks of posts, and let people who want earlier stuff search your archives, it would save a lot of loading.

maybe it's because i check every day and never really look past the last week *shrugs*

just a suggestion...
cheers
chubb