Tip of the Iceberg

1 - I just upgraded to Firefox 3 and I'm still a fan of this browser. PCpitstop just published an article about IE8. Didn't they just release IE7 like a year ago? They claim to like it better than Firefox. Take a look.

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Ever since I got Firefox, I haven't gone back to IE. Personally, I like Firefox as it's a heck of a lot more stable than IE ever was.

2 - IE had a new version released every 1 or 2 years until IE6, which came out in Aug. 2001... IE7 was released Oct. 2006, so it's been nearly two years now, and I frequently encounter clients who are still running IE6 (which is a nightmare to develop applications for).

Firefox is definitely the best browser at the moment... as far as security, reliability, extensibility, and adherence to spec are concerned, nothing else out there can touch it. Opera is still probably the fastest non-beta browser, but even though Chrome's still in beta, it already seems faster than Opera. Once they iron out the kinks a bit, I bet it'll start chewing up some major market share... but I'm curious to see if they make it as extensible as Firefox. That's a significant factor in Firefox's increasing ubiquity.