I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox on-and-off for the last few weeks, but I’ve finally decided to use it exclusively from now on (switched from IE6). The only thing that’s been keeping me from switching has been pure laziness. The only thing I don’t like, so far, is that it doesn’t keep a focus on that last link you clicked on like IE does. I like to browse through my daily reads quickly, so I usually click on the link at the top of the list, then use the ALT key plus the left arrow key to return to my website, then TAB and ENTER to quickly hit the next one, but Firefox won’t allow me to do that. So instead, I’ve got to use the mouse to go back and forth between the Back button and the next link I want to go to, which is much slower.
The main reason that I switched is that a browser helper object automatically installed itself and hijacked IE on my machine last week, and it took me an hour of messing with it to restore everything to normal. Then, just a few days ago, an old family friend, who I hadn’t seen in years, stopped by (quite surprisingly) and asked me for help fixing his machine, which he said was just running agonizingly slow. Using several different spyware removal applications (and two hours of my time), I got rid of about 150 different damned spyware and adware programs (some thanks go to Ty). I also had him switch browsers, so hopefully that’ll keep him from having the same problems in the future.