Well, I was stuck in a stupid 3 day long class about 3 weeks ago, and decided I was going to play with FireFox for my webbrowsing while in the class to give it a proper checking out.

The neatness and compactness of the tabbed browsing had me sold in about an hour. My initial complaints about its speed seem to have been mostly unfounded (or may have been due to non-FF network issues). Load time is fairly long, but actual performance is comparable to IE.

What I like. The tabbed browsing rocks. The fact that I can completely lock down the client so it doesn't run any kind of code at all is nice. The keyboard shortcuts and interface are reminiscient of my old love Netscape/2 4. The Live Bookmarks feature is cool, but I haven't really made much use of it, since I already have 2 different ways to keep up on my RSS feeds. I've also installed Thunderbird to use for mail/news/RSS and love it. It is just like the good old NS/2 4 in -news and -mail modes.

Annoyances. I can't do Ctrl-F and search inside text located inside controls on the form (such as text boxes). Which means I can't look search my code at Brinkster. Sometimes (I haven't deduced the rule yet) ctrl-click doesn't load a link with a querystring in it in a new tab. The new tab is created as (Untitled) with no data in it. Copy Link Location, Ctrl-T, Crtl-L, shift-Ins will load the URL just fine. I can't tile tabs, so if I need to look at 2 web pages side by side I have to open one of the tabs in a new window. In Thunderbird, it's not possible to automatically reconstitute multi-part messages. On the whole, I am quite pleased with the Mozilla offerings.