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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeXenon" data-source="post: 2117739" data-attributes="member: 6228">More than you probably want to know...Everyone has pretty much covered the reasons to switch. I have not encountered any problems. Here is a page from Wikipedia covering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Mozilla_Firefox" target="_blank">Firefox Criticisms</a>.I am a web developer and in the developement community this is the browser of choice. It is standards compliant and renders pages in the most true to the standard way (<a href="http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank">Opera</a> users might argue this, however). You can design a webpage correctly and it will look right in Firefox and when you go to IE it can be horribly broken requiring hacks and bug fixes to make it work. There are a few exceptions but they are few and far between. Internet Explorer's rendering engine does not implement as much of the W3C's spec's as pretty much every other modern browser out there does. In some cases, parts of the spec it does support it supports it incorrectly. Oi!! The Firefox core is based on a forked version of the Mozilla Seamonkey core. It was originally its own core (which I preferred) when it was Phoenix/Firebird, but following the name change to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> it changed core as well. Netscape 6+ uses another forked version of the original Mozilla Seamonkey core that the  <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/" target="_blank">Mozilla Browser</a> uses.  All are products of the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" target="_blank">Mozilla Foundation</a> and all use the base Gecko layout engine. Not that this has any bearing on your question... If any of this is wrong let me know...</blockquote>

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