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Here's a partial list of features.

Most of which Firefox had over a year ago. As for security, well, given how tightly woven IE is into Microsoft's operating systems (try getting an OS update without it), it's now too critical to be used for daily browsing. And of course, its security sins are considerable versus some of the minor things I've seen in Firefox.

I started out on NCSA Mosaic (that was after being around the Internet for about a decade), then MCC/Netscape. Switched to IE at version 3, then switched to Mozilla/Firefox about three years ago. Why would I want to switch back? Firefox does everything IE does -- except talk to Microsoft websites for their OS updates.

Tabbed browsing is great when you have a lot of regular search queries that you do on a regular basis, for eBay or Google or whatever. It's also dramatically more memory efficient -- I have some preset bookmark folders that instantly create more than 30 tabs. Can't do that to IE without crashing or thrashing.

Not all Open Software is "there yet", but Firefox and Thunderbird definately are.

Most of which Firefox had over a year ago.

So what. The original poster was under the impression that the theme was the only thing in IE7 that had changed. I was merely pointing out what a pantload he was selling...

for security, well, given how tightly woven IE is into Microsoft's operating systems (try getting an OS update without it), it's now too critical to be used for daily browsing.

Not in Windows Vista. For one thing, Vista requires the use of LUAs (Limited User Accounts), so any potential damage is limited to user documents ~/. Under XP, IE7 reduces its own rights set to match those that would exist under a LUA; so, even if you're running as Admin, you can't do any serious damage. No more than under 'nix, anyway.

And of course, its security sins are considerable versus some of the minor things I've seen in Firefox.

BS. Apparently, you haven't seen all of the recent exploits in the Firefox plug-in architecture. Talk about a joke...