It seems like once a month the browser question comes up. The simple answer is use what works for you.

I know, it's not very thought provoking and doesn't allow for the endless discussions on the merits of one browser over the other. Bottomline is it doesn't matter.   

The answer to that is 'yes', and in a huge majority.

And the reason is - bundling.  95% of computers run windows, you do not have to download IE, and most of them could not download a browser to save their life.  IE is the lowest common denominator.  But it is the most pervasive.

I use IE7, but I do have FireFox. I hardly ever use it though. I like IE7 alot. It lets me open more than one window at a time with little effort.. I can bounce back and forth between the windows. I have never had a problem with it. But I will say I think FF downloads faster then IE...

I use firefox mainly because of the "skinable" factor. It works well for me. I also use the "IE Tab" plug-in which allows me to switch rendering engines in cases where the site would run better in IE.

thats what use that I was taking about here

I agree.Seems to work pretty good for most things.

I mainly use firefox, only because IE7 doesn't work very well on Vista (at least on my computer it doesn't). Whenever i try to close a window in IE7, the window freezes for a min. and doesnt respond.

I used Firefox for tabbed browsing during the IE6 days. With IE7 and the free IE7pro plug-in I haven't used Firefox in a year and doubt I'll ever need to. But I'm glad it's out there to offer competition in the marketplace. MS got complacent and stupid and they paid a price for it.

Words of wisdom...

Personally , I use IE7 for automatic link apps, and firefox for all the rest.

I use IE7 and it suites my needs...that's why I use the programs I use, they suite my needs. I've honestly never tried another browser becuase IE has always worked and worked well for me. And best of all, about the only thing I've had to do is set up my multiple homepage tabs.

I use IE6 at work because well, I'm a website developer and since IE6 is still a major part of our traffic we have to pay special attention to it. I have IE7 installed on my Vista test box right next to that. At home I run IE6.

Why? (You might ask)

IE sucks. There's no doubting that.
Firefox sucks... inconsistantly. That's where the difference for me lies, and why I refuse to use the browser unless I'm A. debugging javascript or B. I've recently had a labotomy.
IE7 is straight out. I find it to be a less-responsive browser than 6. (and the fact that they havent fixed the 'Operation Aborted' issues really ticks me off) Aside from the tabs there's really not much reason for me to use it. Firefox and IE7 both have equal performance issues when opening a bazillion tabs. I could elaborate for a few more pages, but I digress. I'm not into addons, I've gotten spyware snuck onto my system using both browsers (And I'm a realtively smart intarweb user) so that's not much of an issue for me.

I would use opera except for its maddening interface. I find it to be the least usable browser of them all, however it is very consistant. Updates rarely break or radically modify both it's rendering and it's underlying engines. (Which is not the case with Firefox.)

But for me, I'll take the consistant sucking over the inconsistant.

If the Firefox yahoos (zealots?) come out of the woodwork to toss the same old rhetoric at me, please understand that I'm not interested in a debate, I just wanted to tack my thoughts onto this post because there were some other good replies.

I use IE7,no problems here with it.I tried Firefox and liked the add-ons but thought the browser itself was a bit shabby.
I also tried Opera which was super quick but it didn't seem to like loading the gallery images on WinCustomize (the shadows under the pics looked weird).
I don't know why this subject always generates so much hatred towards IE when it is raised,if I don't like something I just try something else,but these days it seems to be cool to hate popular things.