The Browsers - Fight Of The Century

IE. No one has given me cuase to switch to it, and I doubt they ever will. It works for me, and thats all that matters.
I tried FF but it wasn't any better then IE.

Firefox all the way

Go firefox!

that has absoutely no impact on my browser of choice being the entire purpose. +)

I like opera. I have yet to go to firefox but i will go this weekend. I need to reformat tommorow. And as a designer, I need to get all the versions of internet browsers to see what my clients are looking at when i design.

I like opera too(less than firefox), but the trial software annoys...which is what they provide right? The full version without adds costs money?

Yeah, the only reason Opera isn't as popular is that you've got to pay for the proper version.

i use Mozilla

why is better than IE? well the main reason is tabbed browsing, if you often have more than one site open at a time then this a MAJOR plus, also it doesn't download harmful junk and your CD-Keys cant be stole through it

People just use IE becuase it's there, not becuase they think it's better.

The real reason why Firefox is an improvement over IE is the fact that Firefox fully supports W3C standards. You have to understand that MS chose to win the browser war over Netscape by providing their customers (IE users) a better feature base: more tricks, tools and proprietary code that developers could take advantage of. Sure, Netscape had the <blink> tag, but IE featured these wonderful little things called ActiveX controls (sarcasm intentional) that developers could use to do all sorts of cool things, standards be damned.

The addition of feature sets within the progression of IE has been wonderful for the end user: the person just wanting to surf the web. However, for developers, it has made life a living nightmare. Before the wide emergence of standards-based browsers (when Mozilla bought out Netscape's browser), we only had to worry about supporting IE. At that time, very few of us really understood what the W3C was talking about regarding web standards, since (nearly) everything they proposed would break IE.

Take a look at the evolution of the web since the time Mozilla emerged. Standards have come out of the closet to become a driving force on the internet. True separation of structure and presentation is now within grasp, something that was nearly impossible with IE 4, 5, and 5.5. Sure, IE still has approximately 90% of the browser market, but it's dropping every day. As it drops, MS is realizing that developers actually care about web standards. This can only be a good thing.

So why is Firefox important? Because Firefox is the browser that will change the way that we, as developers, look at the web. No longer do we have to code for IE first, and worry about the 0.5% of users out there that are using a secondary browser. We can now code for standards-compliance first, then go back and hack our code for IE.

The more people that make the switch to a standards-compliant browser the faster we can move towards a web that is useable and accessible.

Sorry for the long-winded diatribe. I'll get off my soapbox now.