Hello leading websites (except MSN, of course). Get a clue. NOW is the time to start encouraging your users to switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Where are the ‘Get Firefox Now’ “buttons”:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage on your homepages? Where’s the customized Firefox browsers? Come on!!

Why aren’t Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Ebay, et al. doing this? I donno. I guess they must really like having Microsoft control the key piece of Internet client software.

In a perfect world, these companies would get together and start creating some more “mind share”:http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.html for Firefox — especially in the minds of the general public. How about a big PR event announcing their ‘partnership’ to promote Firefox? How about each company kicking in some bucks to buy some advertising talking about the benefits of Firefox? How about a ‘Download Firefox’ day where each site dedicates a big chunk of their homepage to encourage downloads?

Do the math. Longhorn isn’t shipping for years, Bill Gates is “scared”:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx and Firefox has “momentum”:http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-02-16.html. If Microsoft maintains its hegemony in browser share, you know who to blame.