In the 90s, I disliked Microsoft with the passion and irrationality you can only really drum up with teenagers. (I continued to somewhat dislike them, even thro

In the 90s, I disliked Microsoft with the passion and irrationality you can only really drum up with teenagers. (I continued to somewhat dislike them, even through the mild good guys years, and feel somewhat vindicated by where Windows 10/11 has been going). I think I must have been one of the last hold outs for Netscape, but around 2000 even I could not justify using it anymore. (It was also a dark period for the Linux Desktop since until Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox came around a good chunk of the internet was not usable there). In the end it was a terrible browser, and IE was clearly on a different planet in terms of just working better. I feel these days I'm expected to make the same choice with Chromium based browsers vs Firefox, though the difference this time around is that I feel Firefox is genuinely a better product (for my needs).