Can't completely ditch IE
I agree with most of the people that have posted in praise of Firefox. It IS more secure than IE and you do get a lot more features with Firefox (plug-ins). For general browsing, it's the best in my book. I haven't played around with Opera. The last time I tried Opera, there were two versions: one that you had to pay for, and the unlimited-free-use version. The "free" version had me plagued with ads trying to get me to purchase their Opera browser, which I found VERY annoying. I don't know what they do now with the latest version, but since I'm quite happy with FF, I don't feel the need to add yet another browser to my system.
It's a bit slow loading. For some reason, the latter versions of Firefox have been a pig on system resources (maybe they're integrating too much with Microshaft??)
Although, you DO have to be careful with the "Internet Explorer Only" sites. If you're running Microsoft's O/S, all your updates, upgrades, help files, ext. are all run off of microsoft.com AND, if you're not using IE, you get errors and problems accessing those files. Microshaft has made access "browser-dependent" - you HAVE to use IE to access your Windows support. If you make FF your primary browser, you'll have problems with using the microsoft.com accessibility with your Windows O/S.
Of course if you're NOT using Microshaft's O/S, then you should be okay with using Firefox as your primary (and ONLY) browser. I use Firefox as my default browser on my Macintosh G4. I like it better and am more comfortable using FF for browsing instead of Safari.
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