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Firefox 2 has been released, as has Internet Explorer 7, and people are talking about Browser Wars all over again. But does anybody really care? I mean, anybody apart from the kind of rabidly anti-Microsoft open source evangelists who genuinely believe that using IE constitutes a crime against humanity. Sure Firefox may be technically better that IE7, and it might adhere more rigidly to the kind of arcane web standards that most ordinary web users neither know or care about, but for most people's purposes are the two browsers really that much different?

I personally use Firefox because I quite like the tabbed windows, but frankly I could just as easily use Explorer and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to me or my browsing habits. I suspect the same is true for the vast majority of people. Browsers do a very basic thing and as such they can't deviate from the script too much, so if you ask me, the difference between Firefox and IE is the same as the difference between Asda and Tesco toilet paper.