[birbear]

After a ten day trial with Firefox, in my opinion it loads slower even after the tweaks, and many web pages are distorted even to the point of being unreadable.

I'll agree with you, Firefox is a bit slower (although after the tweak I did (found here on FR) it loads pages just as quickly as IE did.)

But I'm curious, which webpages were distorted? I've been using Firefox for about 3 months now I guess, I haven't encountered that problem. But admittedly I tend to stay on the same dozen or so pages each day. But even when I was researching stuff during the election, I didn't come across a distorted page.

I will submit, however, that when if I have three or four instances of the browser running, each with 6 or more tabs, it does tend to overwhelm the CPU a little.

[lemura]

FF does load a little slower and does render many sites - including mine - differently than IE.

IE is very forgiving in HTML coding errors and table displays. I'm still working on margin definitions to get my site looking the same way as with IE. IE understands a FrontPage generated page that just says 'p style=margin-top: 6', whereas I think FF needs a complete style sheet definition to get it right.

So now I use FF for everything and run IE now and then to check the site.