Most of the developers whose browsers have been relegated to a second screen of the ballot Microsoft is now pushing to Europeans are mad as hell, and they won't take it anymore.

Four of the seven browser makers that have been shuffled off to an unseen page in the ballot are formally asking European antitrust regulators today to change the screen that users see when they're offered a choice of Web software to download and install.

"Frankly, we're concerned about the inability of the average user to find us," said Shawn Hardin, the CEO of Flock, a Redwood, Calif. company whose Flock browser is among the seven sent packing to the second section of the ballot. "No one seems to know that there are more than five [browser choices], and that's inconsistent with the EU's stated goals."

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