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I distinctly dislike where this is headed. Trying to implement a full office suite in flash? I mean, why don't you just do a parallel processing super-computer in JAVA on a hosted VM while you're at it? Really, I think we're starting to push browsers too far into what will eventually become a crawling horror. I'd like to see this go the other way, and start pulling some of the web functionality we associate with browsers into other applications. For instance, instead of asking why you can't have Office in Firefox, I think the better question is why the two can't share data in more than a download-and-spin-off-a-process fashion? Let the browsers stick to doing what they do best instead of trying to make them all-in-one hosting environments. They're coming dangerously close to being web-oriented operating systems unto themselves, at which point you've done something horribly wrong in your design.