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Mozilla’s Firefox browser has also surpassed 20 percent market share for the first time.

And Google certainly isn’t reluctant to kick Microsoft while it’s down, as it now automatically recommends that Gmail users running IE6 switch to Firefox or Google’s own Chrome browser (apparently Google is hoping that those users don’t realize that IE7 exists or that IE8 is on the way).

I’m sure the Microsoft dudes are starting to get a bit frantic about the slippage in IE’s market share, and I fully expect IE8 to get nearly as glamorous a launch as Windows 7 in order to try to win back some of those Firefox and Chrome converts.

For those of you included in that group of disenchanted IE users, what would it take to bring you back? Adblock Plus for IE? Or would that just be polishing a turd?

We’ve all sent emails we regret after stumbling back home late at night in a fog of alcohol-fuelled bravado - a pathetic plea for reconciliation with an old flame, forwarding furry porn to your grandma, or accepting job offers to work at Metro. The sign of an ill-advised night is no longer a traffic cone on your oven the next morning, but something titled ‘IVE WANTD TO SAY THIS FOR A LONG TIEM JEREMY’ lurking guiltily in your Sent Mail folder.

If only there was some kind of drunkenness detector that could stop you from baring your virtual soul to loved ones and authority figures after a night on the funny juice. Well, now there is.

Google have just unveiled a feature for Gmail called Mail Goggles. It allows you to specify times and days when you fear you might be a bit tipsy (say, after 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays) - and if you try to send an email after that, it’ll force you to take a sobriety test.

If you’re not of sufficiently sound mind to complete some basic arithmetic puzzles……then you’re also not in any fit state to be emailing anybody. Read the rest of this entry »