Hi FwF,
Can't we say that Fx has lost the browser-war already against the makers of Google Chrome or that adaptation of it I personally like better, e.g. RSWare's Iron. Of course the latter browser does not have the extension tweak-ability like Firefox or Flock, but Firefox now in its development is like the Monster-truck that can't be stopped to take the most-needed-U-turn, they go on in the way set out before and in user friendliness and speed it lost out to the GoogleChrome or SrWare Iron browser. So the real innovation comes from another corner of the Open Source community and open standards. And there where "propriety-ish" aspects start to sink in, the users should alert to that. Building in a virtual machine was the golden idea, as where the cross-breed invention of Active-X was just the opposite, it meant disaster. GoogleChrome has now built-in protection through the newest Clamwin-av. If it came with ABP and NoScript I would have left the Fx browser immediately, but Google would not support the open source development of this aspect of its browser, because it has another agenda with the browser than enhanced user protection and user privacy concerns - ad-serving is their main source of income. But now we know in what way the new Open Standards browser should be developed,
polonus