[Eagle9]

While familiarity and perceived ease of use may lead many people to choose IE 7 over Firefox 2.0, everyone should be glad that Firefox, Opera, Sea Monkey (Mozilla Suite), and Safari are available as an alternative to IE 7. Competition is good, since it forces innovation and helps prevent stagnation.

I choose Firefox and Opera over IE.

[Dog Gone]

I use both, and frankly Firefox opens too many tabs in my opinion. I'm constantly closing them. I don't want every page I view on the internet to remain open indefinitely.

[bahblahbah]

I want full SVG support(gecko is woking on it), built in bittorrent client(opera has that), and a download manager that can actually resume stopped downloads.

[Silly]

I used to use Firefox, and like it just fine (still have it), but since I bought my Mac and use their Safari, and it's just fine for me -- never a single problem, and runs like the wind.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I use firefox exclusively..I like the feature that allows firefox to pretend it's IE for sites that only allow IE..it works on approximately 60% of sites I go to that won't allow FF...

[flashbunny]

I'm going to have to go with IE 7, because 7 is a higher number than two, so it must be better.

[big'ol_freeper]

New usability features in Firefox 2.0 that differentiate it from IE 7 include one that will restore the browser to pages where the user was working if a sudden OS restart is required. "If your browser needs a restart or the OS asks you to reboot, losing all of those Web pages and content is pretty disruptive," Beard notes.

At first I was in a quandary as to why this feature would be needed. Then I remembered that before switching to a Mac (from Gateway) I used to have to reboot quite frequently. Excellent feature for Windows sufferers.

[isthisnickcool]

I tried IE 7 and found my best experience with it was removing it.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

You refer to Sea Monkey as the Mozilla Suite in your first post. Does it have a mail manager ala Netscape? If not, what compromises the suite?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Ooops, never mind. I checked at Mozilla Seamonkey and answered my own question. Gee, these search engines are really cool.

[clyde asbury]

Unless its first release was 0.8, it must be a bit older than that. I've been using it for two years and I started at v. 0.8 - which at the time was the latest release.

The new release of the two-year-old product...

[backslacker]

Statistics from Stockcharts.com Interesting stat from their newsletter, ChartWatchers - Oct. 21, 2006 issue:

Over 60% of our users use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Only 14% use Mozilla Firefox, which - on a personal note - I strongly recommend everyone use. --Chip Anderson

http://stockcharts.com/commentary/archives/cww20061021m.html

[TomGuy]

Per Majorgeeks.com, Firefox 2.0 final has been released.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_d2248.html

2.0 information is not yet showing up on the Mozilla/Firefox website, but the download link is working:

http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=2248&file=1&evp=7b5b67cedfd41e9782a30d14601a0cb7