Mozilla Firefox

Summary: Betrayed by MS, 'puter nearly crippled in 6/04 by browser hijack and spyware installation--took me 3 weeks to get it under control. In cruising the so-called "geek boards" to find utilities to clean out my poor, abused computer, I came across mention of both Opera and Mozilla. I downloaded both, but found that Opera's ads took up more room than my husband could tolerate (great little browser, though). We downloaded Firefox at 0.8, I think, and have eventually put it on all four of our computers. We love how we can customize the skin for each of us (our daughter's is "Pimped Out", our son's is "Scribblies for Kids" and ours changes weekly). The favorites toolbar is very handy for us, and the extensions are just a gold-mine of functionality. The kids have Foxy Tunes installed, for toolbar-like management of their media players; I have become very dependent upon Forecast Fox and Chrome-Edit; I have recommended Accessibar to our elderly neighbor who is computer-savvy but suffers from macular degeneration and needs to sometimes listen to his web content, or enlarge his text and alter colors for greater visual processing for his poor eyes. My "I hate change" husband has really come to enjoy it, to the extent of installing it on his boss' computer, and we've put it on at least 5 of our friends' computers as well. The security is amazing; I haven't had a single piece of spyware installed in all the time I've used this browser, and we check frequently with Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D. I can't thank the folks who work on the software enough, and pledge our family's loyalty to the Fox!