The thing with Firefox is that they put a lot of effort into stripping it down to the bare essentials. So it's a 6Mb download, and a clean, nimble, browser. It has tabs, but you don't have to use them, and its basic state doesn't need any skins or themes, and it has the best ad-killer I've seen anywhere -- no popups, no annoying in-window banners or sidebar animations. I'm somewhat allergic to the Mac interface myself, and I never liked Netscape for Windows, but this is pretty much like IE only better. Since I started using it all the time, Ad-Aware hasn't picked up so much as a 'tracking cookie'.
Not affiliated with Mozilla, just a happy user. Oh, and I use the Norton Internet Security Firewall rather than the built-in Windows one ; maybe that makes a difference on the speed front.
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Re: SP2
Not affiliated with Mozilla, just a happy user. Oh, and I use the Norton Internet Security Firewall rather than the built-in Windows one ; maybe that makes a difference on the speed front.