Stick with Firefox, updates happen very quickly if there is a security issue, unlike IE and others!!
There are also a shed load of addons for Firefox, I really like Scrapbook, it allows you to take a snap shot of a web page... Much better than the IE equivalent.
John
PS: Here is a complete list of my current addons I'm using
Application: Firefox 3.0.5 (2008120122)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)
- British English Dictionary 1.19
- CacheViewer 0.4.7.1
Allows searching and sorting cache files
- CLEO 4.0
Create multi-addon install package (Cleopack)
- ColorZilla 1.9
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- CookieSafe 3.0.3
Control cookie permissions.
- Distrust 0.8.1
(Disabled)
Hide surfing trails that the browser leaves behind
- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- DownloadHelper 3.5.1
Download videos and images from many sites
- Exif Viewer 1.45
Extracts and displays the Exif (Exchangeable Image File), IPTC-NAA/IIM (International Press Telecommunications Council / Newspaper Association of America / Information Interchange Model), and IPTC Core (Adobe XMP, Extensible Metadata Platform) metadata, as stored by digital still cameras, in both local and remote JPEG images.
- Extension List Dumper 1.14.1
Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
- Favicons Downloader 0.2
Updates your bookmarks with site favicons.
- FEBE 6.0.3
FEBE - Backup your Firefox data
- Firefox Showcase 0.9.5
Easily locate any tab you've opened in Firefox.
- Header Spy 1.3.2.2
Shows HTTP headers on statusbar
- Html Validator 0.8.5.2
Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3c.
- IE View 1.4
Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
- Image Assistant 0.2.5.1
Launches an image in an external viewer, when user selects the context menu item provided, which is titled "Open Image...", and is located under View Image menu item. This allows for zooming and other rich functionality, not available in the browser.
- infoRSS 1.1.5
Display RSS and Atom headlines in the Firefox status bar.
- Java Console 6.0.11
- Java Quick Starter 1.0
- JavaScript Debugger 0.9.87.4
(Disabled)
JavaScript debugger and profiler
- MR Tech About:About 2.4
(Disabled, Incompatible)
Adds about: options to Help Menu and Toolbar buttons.
- Nagios Checker 0.13
(Disabled)
The statusbar indicator of the events from the network monitoring system Nagios. Information is parsed from Nagios web interface.
- OPIE 1.2.2
Import/Export extension preferences
- Password Exporter 1.1
Export and import your saved passwords.
- Plain Text to Link 1.5.20080618
Handle highlighted text with a right click!
- Save Session 1.3.1.5
Save Session can save the session only once.
- ScrapBook 1.3.3.9
Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.
- Screen grab! 0.95
Saves a web-page as an image.
- Stealther 1.0.6
Surf the web without leaving a trace in Firefox.
- Stop Autoplay 0.7.6
Disable the autoplay of the embedded music and movie.
- StyleSheet Chooser Plus 1.2.0
Keeps CSS stylesheet choice for a website and adds an icon in status bar to select style.
- Tab Catalog 1.4.2008052701
Shows thumbnail-style catalog of tabs.
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080416
Tab browsing with an added boost.
- UrlParams 2.2.0
Displays GET/POST parameters in the sidebar.
- Weave 0.2.7.1
Weave is the Mozilla Labs prototype for online services.
- Web Developer 1.1.6
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
- Yahoo! Mail Notifier 1.0.0.16
This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.