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Re:The second browser war by josefresco on Thursday September 04, 2008 @02:05PM (#295026)
If you excuse the analogy, Firefox was like the Vietnam war, started very small/gorilla style and has now escalated into a larger conflict.

Chrome is more of a full frontal assault on both MS and Mozilla (not to mention Opera/Safari), some one else probably come come up with a fitting historical conflict.

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Re:The second browser war by jhayes on Thursday September 04, 2008 @04:04PM (#295141)
How about WWII?

Mozilla coming from the remnants of Netscape was like the transition from the decimated Weimar Republic to Third Reich, starting over.

Microsoft of course would represent USSR, and just to force the analogy, because their PR in retrospect seems to be terrible (this western education of mine re:USSR & considering that bashing MS is the standard online really).

And I guess that leaves Google with America, only entering into the (browser) war half way through.

Not implying anything about the future of course, just forcing an analogy.

(And sure, let's stretch it and have Safari as Britain, because it's an island, independent of the bigger land masses).

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Re:The second browser war by eru on Friday September 05, 2008 @12:21PM (#295979)
You know who destabilized the Weimar Republic?
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Re:The second browser war by whatusername on Thursday September 04, 2008 @07:31PM (#295323)
And Opera?
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Re:The second browser war by jhayes on Thursday September 04, 2008 @07:45PM (#295335)
Japan, I guess. They were fast to strike in Pearl Harbour (i.e loading speed). However, their extensions are lacking (nuclear capacity) and so they suffer for it.
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