Use the tool that’s right for you
So Matt decided that Opera worked better for him than Firefox did, and switched accordingly. And I say, more power to him; Firefox was crashing a lot for him and Opera appears to be working quite well. Too often I see people get caught up in fanboyism and forget that the point of an alternative browser is not to become the dominant market force:
FIERFOX IS GRAAT!11!!11! LOL Y WUD U SWITCH?!?!??? (?)
But the point of an alternative browser is to provide freedom of choice. As long as a browser supports the web standards I covet as a web designer (e.g., Internet Explorer is not a browser, and no, Avant, Maxthon, et al. don’t count either), I really don’t care what you use 
It’s the same with operating systems. Elliott came into my room today when I was writing a bash script and was like “Huh, MS-DOS?” No Elliott, I just run Linux. “Oh… but you’re not a zealot about it… I didn’t know.” Because I use the tool that’s right for the job, and nothing more. Linux is great for my programming and PIM needs… when I need games, I switch to Windows. None of this self-flagellation because I *must* destroy the Evil Empire… I use what works.
Today I was trying to do out a calendar for ZAP, and KOrganizer kept crashing when I tried to print. So I exported to vCal, swapped boots to Windows, fired up Outlook, printed. All good.
2:54 am
Amen to that!
The using the tool thats right is a huge reason for my switch to Palm from the PPC platform. I thought it was the right tool for me 3 years ago when I got my first PPC, but its just not.
Thanks again for your information earlier about your Tungsten. Greatly appreciated.
12:56 pm
Hehe
Yeah, it’s what I was thinking when I did switch browser, a lot of people get caught up in all the Firefox hype, but if it’s no good for you, there’s no point using it just because others do. At the end of the day, you want something that’s good and that works, who cares if it’s what so many thousand others use
5:10 pm
I love when people speak out against fanboyism. So many people (especially at the Nintendo and Sony PS forums) say “OURZ IST TH3 PWND!11!111″, when it actually all comes down to each individual. It isn’t any one person’s job to say what everybody should use.