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I have Firefox, and I like the interface, but I agree that it's a little overrated right now. The program just barely loads, hangs forever, crashes constantly, and takes twice as long to load every single page as IE does.
I do not have this problem. Evar. At work or at home. Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, Windows XP Pro.
I use Symantec Antivirus at home alongside Microsoft Anti-Spywear Beta and Spybot-Search And Destroy. I regularly run and update them as well as immunize with Spybot. I also do manual checks. I keep my startup clean and try and minimize the system resource usage on my system.
I have never even had 1% of the problems people claim to have with Windows in general and Windows XP in particular. I routinely get 2 or 3 weeks of uptime on my windows box. The only reasons that I have to reboot is because of new nVidia drivers or because I was fooling around with settings I had no buisiness with in the first place.
I worked in IT/Support at college and routinely had to clean 400-600 seperate spyware infections off of computers. People couldn't load the desktop or IE never worked or whatever. None of this has ever happened to me.
Hopefully you don't put your ***** into questionable cooch without a condom, so don't take your ePeen out without a condom either.
As for firefox and the security of it: It has had more flaws exposed than IE in the last few months, however it is a beta... not
Version 6. The bugs are fixed
promptly. The whole browser works better in general at this stage, I love version 1.5 beta 2. I cannot wait to see what version 2 and on brings.
knowledge = power