You make a compelling argument. I haven't used Firebird since the early beta - it wasn't too bad. I shall download it as soon as my other downloads have finished. Edit: I wish the Mozilla site wouldn't use PNG files. They are not as efficient as GIF files on low colour images. I will also say that I...

If it renders everything correctly, why didn't AOL use it in it's client software? and if AOL didn't use Netscape, why should anybody else? Netscape seems to have an inability to run scripts and render many webpages correctly. It doesn't fully support (implement correctly) the document object model....

Just use it, especially on web pages with multiple tables and controls like buttons and drop downs on them, and you'll find it doesnt render them correctly.

Mozilla/Netcape are nasty. The reason why it never won the browser wars in the late 1990's was because it is crap. Even with a complete rewrite, it is pretty much the same. The Geko engine is not very good. The only thing I like about these alternative browsers is tabbed Windows.

I've tried all the alternative browsers, and for now I'm going to stick with IE. It's fairly mature code, most sites, rightly or wrongly assume it to be the browser of choice. You can't really go too far wrong. For those of you who groan about security holes, if you a decent product like Norton Inte...