FireFox

I have been using Mozilla's FireFox browser for about 3 months now. I don't use it exclusively because our intranet and extranet our .NET sites that don't look or function correctly in FireFox. This is a big detterent for me to be an advocate for FireFox. As a developer who sometimes uses the .NET framework, I want to know that people are going to be able to use my applications.

My second big problem is that FireFox seems extremely slow when rendering pages. Now, I haven't done any benchmarking tests or anything...it is just an observation.

FireFox is safer by far than Internet Explorer. I have gone to sites that I know have malicious code that gets downloaded on your machine when you visit it and FireFox does not get comprimsed. This is a big advantage in my book. We have had to deal with several viruses/malware attacks when employees were browsing sports related sites. If they use FireFox, then they don't get the malware.

I love tabbed-browsing. Tabbed browsing is the best browser invention ever. I hope IE adds it to thier UI.

Anyway, I will be using FireFox for my web browsing, but will not get rid of IE. There are times and sites that I find easier to use from IE than FireFox. Microsoft has nothing to worry about from FireFox, despite the hype. IMHO, FireFox is a great browser but it is not a KO-Drag IE down browser. However, I do hope that MS implements some of the security features and other usability features of FireFox, to truly make a great browser.