After the release of Firefox 1.0 yesterday Asa has reported that they are estimating that there were over 1 million downloads of Firefox yesterday alone. The grassroots campaign of spreading this software is a really encouraging change from the norm and shows that groups of dedicated people can change things without having the immense backing of a large corporation.
Anyone reading this who is still using the insecure and stagnating Internet Explorer should give Firefox a try. You will be protecting yourself against spyware, popups and a whole host of undesirable things on the Internet while also using a browser with some very useful features such as tabbed browsing, which IE has not adopted. There is no real reason to continue to use IE when it provides such a threat to your computer.
The new Firefox rules. With previous versions, comparing to Safari, it was really a toss-up as to which was faster. Some pages loaded faster on Safari, others were faster on Firefox. Now, they're all after on Firefox 1.0. It's my default browser right now.