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This is W-a-y better than Internet Explorer for several reasons: 1) I have stopped using adware/spyware software since I started using Firefox. It doesn't download things behind my back. If a page is trying to load something (like, say, iTunes), I get a readable warning. 2) There are a ton of neat plugins that you can find from the mozilla.org site. 3) There are minor niceties like themes that you can use to customize your 'look and feel'. 4) A lot of new features being developed very rapidly, so they seem to be far ahead of IE, including IE 7. Cons: 1) One of the downsides is that on windows, firefox runs as a single process. So, if one page hangs the browser (e.g. bad ajax call or something), ALL windows freeze up. In general, however, this works very well. 2) There are still some sites that do not render well on Firefox. Firefox is MORE standards compliant, but some sites do not open up well in Firefox.

They have managed to take 15% of the market and security is definitely a big (probably, the biggest) benefit. But it tends to be slow at times as compared to IE. It has been crashing a lot more of late but that might just be a hardware problem on my 3 year old laptop...

I am using this for the last 3 years, never had any BIG issue with firefox but yeah sometimes you feel IE is better choice & in the next thought you say" no man, firefox is the coolest browser in the world...why i am comparing this to IE (inter-Bug explorer, lol)...."

Goods-

Faster Response

Tab Browsing

Popup Blocking

Cleaner Interface

Open Source Advantage

Searching for bads....

Firefox is fast, light (if you dont add too many plugins), very versatile (becasue of its add-ons) and secure.

The recent release of Firefox and the upcoming one are getting better in stability and the recent memory leakage issues.

Try it and you are sure to like it better than IE.

.......I'm sure you already knew that.

The extensions available are amazing and just when you thought they couldn't improve it any more, someone, somewhere manages to come up with an extension that really makes your life a lot easier!

Firefox is hands-down the best web browser available for this particular user.

I have tried many, many browsers over the years, including Netscape Navigator, Opera, and Internet Explorer, but I have to hand it to Mozilla. They have developed the ultimate one.

The application itself is extremely versatile, able to be rendered portable and taken almost anywhere with any number of its limitless plugins.

It is easily movable from one system to another as well; all one need do is move a single folder for instant transfer of every personalized setting.

In sum, I am not certain what other reviews mean by "slow at times" or "sometimes feeling IE is a better choice". Firefox has won me over. I have not needed nor wanted another browser since downloading years ago.

I just downloaded v3.0 RC2 and its still as much of a memory hog as the previous 2.x version. It is still the best browser out there, inspite of this issue but if they could address the memory issue, it would be a no brainer...