I know I'm walking into a field of landmines in replying to this, but I'll try to tread carefully: The plumber/pipe metaphor is better suited to consulting & c

I know I'm walking into a field of landmines in replying to this, but I'll try to tread carefully: The plumber/pipe metaphor is better suited to consulting & custom corporate apps. For wide-release software (like Adobe's software) it's in the company's best interest to fix bugs and keep the user happy. And I think pierrefar made a good point. The only reason I use Firefox is that it's a higher quality than IE and Opera. This might be a result of the openness of the software, but the openness of Firefox wasn't the deciding factor when I started to use it.