Re:Why (Score 1)

Why? Give me a good, solid reason why I should download a new program, complete with potential problems, headaches, etc. to replace a perfectly good, functional program? I can't seem to think that the Mozilla developers are kind of like people developing new and better pencils. Except this special pencil is hard to find, takes time to figure out how to use, and does what, exactly, that a regular pencil doesn't do? "Come one and all! See our amazing new pencil! It'll revolutionize the hot, exciting pencil industry!! It'll change the way you use pencils! The lead is softer and the wood is harder! Can you imagine how much more work you could get done with this new pencil? " It's just silly.

Have you ever gone to your local office supply store and seen pencils that aren't made from wood? Guess what, they do exist! The lead comes in a variety of softness/hardness. You can put in enough lead that the same pencil will last at least twice as long as your wooden version. There are even models that give you an eraser that is ten times as large as your old one and it is even faster at removing those erroneous marks. Just why is it you are still using that wooden monstrosity you call a working pencil???

Moving away from your simplistic analogy; what does your current browser do so well? Let's assume it is IE shall we? What is it exactly that you are afraid Firefox won't do just as well if not better?

Myself, I love tabbed browsing and decent cookie management. The download manager is kind of nice too. It's the large list of little tiny features that come together to make Firefox come out leaps and bounds ahead of IE. Things like image blocking, web searching from highlighted text, bookmark keywords, straight-forward options, and javascript that does what the user wants not what the website tells it to.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: Why are you so sure what you have now is "a perfectly good, functional program?" Give Firefox a try it's not like Windows will even let you get rid of IE so you can always go back to that if you really want to.