Firefox Receives Softpedia User's Choice Award

Firefox rocks by default anyway :P

What a great demographic...

1000's users who are all software junkies...go figure...59%...


Software junkies who arent very lazy use FireFox.
Lazy people who don't care about anything, let alone what browser installed, use Internet Explorer
Really lazy people who are impatient use Opera.

I fall into category three.
I used to be in category 2, until my IE6 broke on account of rain...rainfall from IE7 beta 2. Then I tried Opera and use it more nowadays.

Firefox rocks! i like it

I live on a machine with slow memory although I do have 4gb on my windows 7 machine. Because windows 7 is a memory hog (you get a lot for the consumption), I was trying to find something that returns memory using more efficient algorithms when I close IE. I installed firefox for the very first time in years and although I can say that firefox uses less memory, it took more processing power than IE, and it was less efficient. Tabbed browsing was the only thing I saw that showed a peformance difference, firefox used less memory here but only because it would not actually display the information on the page until you switched to that tab. For my purposes, this was alright, since when I switched to the tab, it only took about 3-4 seconds to complete the page. But once you start switching back and forth between tabs, the memory usage was the same between firefox and IE. Firefox did return the memory slightly faster once the tabs were closed, but this can actually be a up or down depending on how you use your browser. On my wifes new machine, with 6gb of fast ram, there was absolutley no performance difference between IE and firefox, and IE was more stable running heavy duty flash websites. Firefox had the problem of not displaying, needing to refresh, or making me click links a second or third time when my consumption spiked. I also like that in IE you can open multiple pages as home pages, and I like all the plug-ins and plug in control you have with it. Add to this that advanced control of browser behavior is almost non-existent on firefox whereas you can controld hundreds of functions on IE.... firefox looks like a stripped down browser when compared to IE.

All this is to say that I really believe the people who switch to firefox are the same people who switch to MACs because it is cooler. it offers a way to differentiate yourself, or they are mislead that it is so much better. I have spent 20 years in the IT industry on the wintel side, unix, linux, as400, you name it.