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I am in no way, shape, or form a Firefox cultist. Under Windows I have MSIE 7.0 RC1, FF 1.5, and Opera 9.0 installed here and use all three as appropriate, yet Firefox remains my default browser. Why? MSIE 7.0 RC1 has serious issues with loading, the graphics rendering, scrolling, and closing down despite the fact that I've tried every variant of the nVidia drivers from v53.03 on up to the latest (and greatest?) WHQL certified Forcerware drivers. No other program exhibits such problems and I have several hundred applications installed without counting utilities and such. As for Opera, which is the most W3C compliant of the lot, too many sites do not load or render properly almost certainly due to our long history of browser hacks in order to get our sites to display properly. Given that I extensively track the industry via the web, I have to use what works with the sites although I do drop a line to the webmaster when I find a problem with that site under any browser.

For now, FF works well and has the advantage of a large extension base to draw on, it works the way I want to work. As an engineer, I'll switch when something better comes along. My toolbox can always use better tools although all browsers (and many OS'es) are found in that toolbox and always will. You have to be able to test your designs and that's the end of that.

BTW, if you are interested in sheer speed of loading and rendering, Opera is currently where you find it, even with the site loading/rendering problems you (occasionaly) run across. Highly recommended, especially for those stuck on dial-up.
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