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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Firefox}} is a popular browser | + | {{incomplete|The browser war did start in the 90's}} |
+ | {{w|Firefox}} is a popular browser and in 2006 it was the second most commonly used browser. Its more fervent supporters sometimes wrote as if there was a moral imperative to use Firefox rather than Internet Explorer. | ||
− | The title text | + | [[Cueball]], presumably representing [[Randall]], begins each day with a reasonable perspective on the relative unimportance of an internet browser within the world at large, but quickly loses that perspective as his enthusiasm for Firefox gets the better of him. The humor stems from the irony that Cueball is relieved to trade a richer perspective for a simpler, browser-oriented world view. |
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+ | At the title text we have {{w|Richard Matthew Stallman|Richard Stallman}}, an American software freedom activist and computer programmer connected to {{w|Cirque du Soleil}}. Supporting free software is more serious like being an artist at a circus. | ||
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:Cueball: It may be a jewel of open source, but Firefox is '''just a browser.''' It shows '''webpages.''' What the hell is '''wrong''' with us? | :Cueball: It may be a jewel of open source, but Firefox is '''just a browser.''' It shows '''webpages.''' What the hell is '''wrong''' with us? | ||
:Fortunately, this subsides quickly. | :Fortunately, this subsides quickly. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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