[mathprof]

I mostly love Microsoft software, but Firefox is a lot better than IE.

[KoRn]

Firefox is the App of the year! In my opinion.

[Malesherbes]

I'm a new and very happy Firefox user. The inexpensive "Guidebook" is worth buying from their website.

[beckaz]

Been using it 2 weeks only, but pop-ups and ads down dramatically (was using a pop-up blocker with IE).
Also, no incidences of dreaded blue-screen yet (which happened every couple of days with IE).

[martin_fierro]

Spyware on my PCs is way, waaaay down since the switch to Firefox.

[mlbford2]

I love XP, but you couldn't pay me enough to use IE. Firefox is what I have been using for the past year or so. I hear that some on this board really like a few of the others out there too.

[Drango]

Using foxfire for almost a month...(frankly I don't see that much difference)

[1234]

i've got CompuServe 2000 version of IE, now at 5.5 level-all on Win 95 OS-should i risk the dwnld?

[WKB]

When using Firefox, is there a way to set the font size so it will stay at the size you want?

[Condor51]

Firefox ROCKS!

[blues_guitarist]

"Mr. Schare may be the official spokesman, but he does not use Internet Explorer himself. Instead he uses Maxthon, published by a little company of the same name. It uses the Internet Explorer engine but provides loads of features that Internet Explorer does not."

"(From www.maxthon.com) Maxthon is free. But if you are enjoying your new surfing experience, please Donate or Promote Maxthon to help us develop it and keep it the best."

Hmmm . . . Sounds a little like the open source model to me. Yuk, yuk, yuk!

[ExTexasRedhead]

I'm not computer savvy--how do I go about changing from IE to Firefox? I have XP Pro and haven't added SP2 because of warnings from friends who have had SP2 trash their PC's. Okay, you computer guys--don't laugh.

[clyde asbury]

Firefox is my default browser, too. It has its weaknesses, tho.

Adobe docs give it problems, and there are reports of security holes. Not nearly as many as with IE.

MS seems to release IE security updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

[Salo]

I've got Firefox (and have since about 0.8). Love it. There's a security flaw with it now involving pop-ups (which are disabled by default) that also affects IE and opera. I put in the adblock and SpoofStick extensions for added convenience and safety.

MS had better get back to the drawing board with IE, and had better do so rapidly: FF has gotten mindshare and is increasing penetration - and, unlike MS's penetration, no one is getting screwed over. ;-)

[B Knotts]

WARNING: Open Source can be addictive.

Next thing you know, y'all will be running Linux!

[K. Smirnov]

I wonder why no one mentioned Mozilla, the elder brother of Firefox.

I used to work in Oracle some time ago. Oracle praises web-enabled applications and is very much anti-Microsoft. However, to my amusement, Oracle web-enabled apps were running on IE only. The only thing, that came to my mind was "Oracle web-enabled apps run ony any OS and on any browser, as long as this OS is Windows and the browser is IE". Yuck. (that has changed as of now)

So, I have run an experiment. I have put SuSE Linux Desktop Edition plus Mozilla, plus Star Office on my PC and just tried to push on with what I was doing on Windows PC. Frankly speaking, I was able to cover nearly 80% of what I was normally doing. However, any web apps that had MS javascript and ActiveX component did not work.

I bet, when Mozilla/Firefox supports MS javascript extensions and ActiveX, it will rock and roll, it will kick the ... out of MS IE. (accidentally, MS did not release the new version of their browser for a veeery long time).

I am using Mozilla at work (despite that IE is the corporate standard) for simple reason - I do not want all of the junk (like spyware) landing on my PC. At home I mainly use Firefox (it is a tad lighter and faster than Mozilla). I have been using Mozilla since version 1.0

Post scriptum: RSS bookmarks rule! If only FR supported RSS, it would be much easier to navigate. Take a look at del.icio.us for RSS stuff.

[ops33]

I like Firefox but does anyone know of a way to get the bookmarks to list in alphabetical order?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Podkayne]

There are so many trap doors and security problems with microsoft stuff that they would be dollars ahead to come up with new everything. Their original design premise is their achilles heel. Making everything inter-operable and requiring online updates, registration and periodic maintenance from Microsoft is the achilles heel.

Microsoft is going down. The DOD has switched to Apple. Who wants to spend 90% of their computer time cleaning, repairing, innoculating and playing around with weak software?

[HairOfTheDog]

I mostly love Microsoft software, but Firefox is a lot better than IE.

What's to be better? I am not looking for a lot of features I guess... a browser to me is just a box that web pages come in.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Interesting how a favorable editorial review coincides with a two-page ad in the same publication.