Reasons to switch to Firefox

We switched from IE to Firefox about a year and a half ago. We have about 40 workstations with roughly 50 users. Firefox has cut down dramatically on the amount of spyware I have to deal with, and the tabs are the greatest thing since sliced bread. We only use IE for Windows Update and sites that require IE.

I use Firefox and like it. However, I run it
under Windows 95, which is not supported, and
browsing some Web pages does lock up the machine.
(Strangely, Netscape 7.0 doesn't do this.)

I also run Thunderbird under Windows 95 and it
runs fine.

Regards,
Martin

BTW - for Mac users, you can use Firefox, but I also highly recommend Camino from Mozilla. It's has the same basic rendering code, but it's written in Cocoa specifically for the Mac. I have found that it is much more responsive than firefox on Mac machines.

Mkirros,

You can make IE-only sites run in a Firefox tab using this plug-in

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

I LOVE LOVE LOVE FIREFOX...I was intorduced to it through school...and after I coulc not open my e-mail with IE. This works perfectly...and I love the tabs so I can run all over the place using tabs...it si GREAT!!. I now just need a spyware that is free and highly effective..so far i have not been hainvg problems with viruses like I did wiht IE..but I sure like being safe rather than sorry..so I am looking for spyware to use along with my Firefox
I just love FIREFOX
DianaMarie

Brian the IE Tab plugin (referenced) doesn't make IE-only sites run in a Firefox tab... What it does do, is imbed Microsoft Internet Explorer into a Firefox tab. In other words, you are no longer viewing web sites with Firefox, you are viewing them with Internet Explorer albeit running within Firefox.

Some of the purists may not like this one :-)

Cheers, Don

Firefox users may find this list of hot keys (keyboard shortcuts) quite handy:

http://lesliefranke.com/files/reference/firefoxcheatsheet.html

We are a Firefox-only shop, simply because of the security issues with IE. IE7 might be the bee's knees, but once burned, twice shy (to be all folksy about it.) When I purchase a new computer, I erase the IE icons.

But at home, and on my own machine, I use Opera. It is free, but not open source (which to me is academic as long as the product is good.) It has stuff that Firefox doesn't: integrated RSS, integrated bitorrent, integrated phishing protection. It had tabbed browsing before Microsoft was a gleam in Bill Gates' eye (not really, but a long time.) It has widgets, if you care. It is small and fast. It offers a complete set of security protocols. You can allow or disallow cookies by individual website or domain. You can even block ads on individual pages (right click, "block content"). On my 512 MB machine, I can open over one hundred instances of Opera without problems (other than hitting the swap file a lot.) Ver 9.1 just came out. I love it. The only thing is it doesn't have those snap-in modules that Firefox does, which is probably a better approach overall. But just as it is, Opera does everything I could possibly want.

Karl