Dumbed down? Thats funny, considering MS is taking every single feature that FF has and is adding it to IE7 when that gets released....
If dumbed down means that it follows all HTML rules for compiling, and doesnt require you to work around bugs, and making development much easier, as well as being 110% more secure, Ill still take it. Ive been web programming since the 7th grade....FF is NOT a dumbed down version of IE. They dont even operate on the same level. MS has slowed the development of HTML and other web protocols for ages now because of IE and its 'special compilers'. I have countless books from MS for programming for IE, and I constantly have to reference to them due to some stupid bug that they didnt bother to fix. IE is a POS, and is a giant gaping security hole into your computer, as well as Windows Media Player. Ive been using FF since the day that the first beta was publicly released, and I have yet to encounter a single problem with 'policing.'