Firefox - The IE Killer?

[kosmo vinyl]

I've been waiting for years to get a browser other than Microsloth's Internet Explorer.  IMHO the Mozilla/Netscape developers stumbled several times.   Everytime new and "improved" release was slow, buggy and often deleted shortly after install.  
 
 So lasst night I dowloaded the latest version
 
 
  Firefox version 0.8 and so far it rocks like a MOFO.   On my "ancient" 233MHz laptop it loads pages faster than IE.  It's got the same great features as Safari on the MAC . Tabs, Built-in popup blocking, Integrated Google Searching, etc (Safari   was developed using Mozilla code)
 
 With the OS X, and Windoze, version of the Firefox  I can now get a    googlebar, which is something I always missed when using Safari.
 
 So far Firefox gets a thumbs up from me.  One will  run into websites which lazy developers built using propritary IE features, but those sites should be avoided like the plaque anyways.

[redsock]

Anyone else have anything to add on this? I hate using micrsoft products. I'll at least try it out.

[cliffcolli]

I'd recommend checking out a browser called 'Slim Browser' It's built on IE, but it's much, much better. Suprisingly, faster than firefox and more reliable with things like Java...

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

geek alert!
 
   <img src="http://daz00k.free.fr/geek.gif" alt=" - " />

[godsshoeshine]

i have an older version of mozilla, safari and ie on my home machine, and ie is the least desirable. some stupid websites are poorly coded for ie only, so i keep it. like my company's site. so i have to use ie at work.

[Ikarus]

firefox is okay, but it has some problems dealing w/ ads.  if they can get to a 1.0 release and keep the name for more than four months it should take off.

[thirsty moore]

So, I d'loaded up Firefox.  Nice browser.  IE is still loading faster though.
 
 A question for the computer types.  If I were to d'load Mozilla Thunderbird (E-mail app), would I be able to check my AOL mail with it?

[cliffcolli]

Yes