I love Firefox and use it exclusively at home, and almost exclusively at work.

My only complaint is that all of our internal corporate sites require IE. Need to check out my stock? IE. Need to see my pay distribution? IE. Of course, our IT jokers pay for their lack of vision (<--SW:ROTJ reference) by fighting the monumental task of keeping 120k Windows boxes patched etc. Think of all the money we could've saved....

I have to use IE at work for several sites on our Intranet, but I use FireFox for everything else and I also recommend FireFox (in the strongest way possible) to everyone I know who has a PC at home. I'm getting tired of being everyone's "24hr help desk" and have told them I no longer support IE. so, if they use IE and their browser gets hijacked or they acquire spyware/scumware, they can't depend upon me to fix it for them, I'm too busy enjoying the Michigan summer (driving the Porsche and being with my family).

I called my IT guy at work about an hour ago after reading another thread & asked him about Mozilla. He told me he didn't like the way the security stuff worked & told me as long as I'm using my router with a hardware firewall & keep up on all my updates I won't have any problems with IE. He's a busy guy so I didn't dig for particulars on the security issues, but he's my go to guy whenever I'm considering something new or something bad happens to my PC.

Paul -
He may be right; my experience has been, even through an external firewall, running Norton AV, ZoneAlarm and Spybot S&D on a daily basis, shyt still gets through.

And what actually pi$$es me off is not the fact that some innocuous trojan gets in, but that F*CKING Norton can't fix it and KEEPS TELLING ME ABOUT IT every 60 seconds with -- literally -- dozens of identical pop-ups. So I went to Mo to escape Norton's staggeringly user-unfriendly serial interruption "system."

JP

I have a laptop at home that has IE installed. It has been crippled with domain redirects, malware and god knows what else. It would take about 5 minutes of frustration to get to a page I selected...then churn for another 5 minutes. The machine is destined for a re-gen soon.

As a result of this thread I installed Firefox to see how it would perform.
I started it up and it works perfectly.

Firefox will be what goes on all my home PCs.