I'm not sure what's wrong with being a beta, it's alot more stable than IE ever was, and I haven't run into any bugs.

No thanks I'll stay with IE have tested all browsers and I keep coming back to IE. Besides the security problems it does a better job then the other browsers

i also tried many browsers like opera and netscape and discarded them for IE, but Firefox is the real deal. One great feature for people that don't like small fonts on high resolution LCD screens is the "increase text size " feature which effortlessly increases the text size of webpages such as this. Also , it is very fast and integrates well with aol email via its thunderbird add on.

This may or may not be relevant on whether to switch to Firefox, but the only reason that a website would not work under Firefox and would work under IE is because that website is "broken" and IE has a tendency to be "smart" and accept broken HTML. In reality this is not a good thing at all but is responsible for some of the security problems associated with IE. I have been using Firefox for over a year now and have had very few problems. In spite of the fact that it is "beta" (and by the way, 1.0 is planned for early October), I have found it to be responsive and full featured than IE. It will even import your IE favorites if you're worried about that. As far as security is concerned, the number one thing I tell people to do to avoid spyware/adware/viruses is to install Firefox. It is simply the best browser I have ever used.

I absolutely love FireFox, it beats IE out hands down. There's no huge security leaks, no popups and it's faster. And as the person before said, the reason that IE will open pages "correctly" that others doesn't is because it will render severely messed up HTML coding, in addition there's some HTML code that only IE will render and web designers need to start considering the fact that not everyone uses IE.

I like firefox because you can open multiple tabs in the same windsow... it makes browsing a lot easier.

I use Firefox myself and love it.

Is it not all about numbers? The reason IE is attacked by hackers is beacuse *everyone* uses it so when Firefox really takes off hackers will turn there attention to that?

no, it is not about numbers. it is time people stopped repeating that nonsense. example: iis (microsoft webserver) is attacked a magnitude of times more than apache. yet apache's market share is close to or over 70 percent. microsoft simply makes insecure software period.

Ruairi: "Is it not all about numbers? The reason IE is attacked by hackers is beacuse *everyone* uses it so when Firefox really takes off hackers will turn there attention to that?"
Please read carefully this: http://www.mozilla.org/security/security-announcement.html

firefox is so great. i mean, he use tabs and the pages loads faster. The only point is that it's still hard to switch. sometimes, some functiona are missing, or i am just affraid they will miss, somehow. so i used to go back to IE. The googlebar does not work and it's small google search does not give enouygh things. what else? not sure. but soon, maybe if i remove the icon, in example, then suddently things will be easier.

gabyu: "The googlebar does not work and it's small google search does not give enouygh things."

Try this:
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=193&vid=492

Once you start using Firefox, there's no turning back to IE. It's a one-way track. Beware.

Yeah.. the extension above is quite handy if you want the google toolbar back. In fact, there are tons of extensions you can get, and even code yourself (seeing as it IS open source)! With the extensions you can practically do anything you want with Firefox.. certainly anything you could do in IE, minus access to a very small percentage of sites (say Windows Update.. which you can automate from within Windows, without IE, anyway).

switch to others than IE, at least they won't see opening a jpg image with browser is an illegal operation...

Firefox is good. While one problem is that I can import bookmarks from IE to firefox but FAILED to import bookmarks from firefox back to IE...

One more thing is that google bar still does not work even I have installed the extension at: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=193&vid=492

When I input something (e.g. hehe) in the google search box and press Enter, the google page does display in the firefox, but with nothing in its search box, i.e. only a google home page is displayed. While Yahoo search bar in firefox works correctly.