> I don’t think people complained that IE6 was the only option. Some people did. I complained -- at the time -- that the monoculture was harmful, and I used Fi

> I don’t think people complained that IE6 was the only option. Some people did. I complained -- at the time -- that the monoculture was harmful, and I used Firefox as my primary browser for that reason (but there were lots of sites that would only work on IE). I loved Chrome when it first showed up: a new entrant increasing the diversity and bring lots of new technical and UI innovations. But once Chrome reached the point where it dominated the browser ecosystem I returned to Firefox because I really DO think that diversity is important. Specifically, I believe that when the largest player in the market has no more than ~40-50% market share AND there are at least 4-5 different widely-used tools, that producers of content (as well as the tool providers) will feel compelled to focus on delivering a compatible experience. But when the largest player in the market has 75% of all users, it's advantageous for content producers to focus on delivering for that platform AND it starts to be advantageous for the producer of that tool to become incompatible with other tools. To keep the ecosystem healthy, I want to see more diversity than we have today.