I switched to Mozilla about a year ago and I almost never use IE now, unless there's something funky that Mozilla doesn't show correctly.
Same here, but only about 6 months ago. Really, there are not too many sites of major companies that Mozilla doesn't work on... and I have only come across a couple things that Mozilla choked on.
i'll third the vote for mozilla (i'm using firefox) -- i've been using it for almost 2 years now exclusively except when i have to test to see if IE works on a page (as a web designer, i unfortunately have to work with IE's quirks / bugs)
but yeah - firefox is great!
Mozilla all the way... Not only does it stop the pop-up scripts from even running, it also has tabbed browsing!
I hear you tho, being a web designer myself, I occasionally have to load up IE. It's always funny when I do an update and it looks fine, then one of my buddies checks the site in IE and comes back to say something is screwed.
Jett
I sometimes hear people complain about some websites that don't look or work correctly in a non-IE browser.
This is NOT the fault of the browser. It is the fault of the website. Just about all of the non-IE browsers follow the W3C standards for HTML.
A website designed to only work properly in IE is only shootin themselves in the foot. Even if less than 1% of people did not use IE, that is still TENS OF MILLIONS of users. And I'm sure the percentage of non-IE users is much larger than 1%.
Most developers I know don't spend much time testing non-IE browswers because even though there may be tens of millions of users, nobody gets that much site traffic. The vast, vast, vast majority of sites on the web never see more than a thousand visitors in a day, so they would be expending tons of extra effort just to please 5-10 people who already know that some sites aren't going to look right in their browser.
Explorer forced me off it about six months ago. All kinds of goofy errors and no real way to fix them short of formatting the whole damn system. Fine, whatever, I'm on Mozilla now and the occaisonal goofy error is a small price to pay to be free of all the shortcomings of IE (and Outlook).
I locked down my IE and it runs fine.
Much better than firefox and opera in some cases.
Not everyone can or knows how to do that. Those are the people that make the internet less safe for the rest of us.
Who the hell wants to use an old out-dated piece of software anyways?
I have used just about every browser out there (I use to have 9 of them installed , if you include multiple versions as separate browsers, I have even used browsers for the blind) and the one that I like the best is Safari on MacOS. I can open things into tabs or into new windows etc. etc. Mozilla is good if your are on a PC.
As a developer what I like about IE is basically two things 1.) all the shit that make it so easy for the malicious coders also make it easy for me to use in in my own apps and 2.) just about everyone still uses it.
I've been using Opera for almost 2 years now, and I know how much IE sucks assss.