I've lived in a world where I couldn't access online banking if I was using anything as exotic as Mozilla on Linux. Thankfully, the situation has improved a bit since those days, but I would never want to return to them. Note that today you don't have to stray very far from the mainstream before Adobe stops delivering their plugin. The web should be such that it can be used on innovative platforms without being at the mercy of one CEO who doesn't like another CEO that day, or thinks your FreeBSD or Plan 9 or Haiku are too marginal, or that your CPU instruction set insufficiently ubiquitous.
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"Adobe can fix" < "Anybody can fix"
I've lived in a world where I couldn't access online banking if I was using anything as exotic as Mozilla on Linux. Thankfully, the situation has improved a bit since those days, but I would never want to return to them. Note that today you don't have to stray very far from the mainstream before Adobe stops delivering their plugin. The web should be such that it can be used on innovative platforms without being at the mercy of one CEO who doesn't like another CEO that day, or thinks your FreeBSD or Plan 9 or Haiku are too marginal, or that your CPU instruction set insufficiently ubiquitous.