Chris

Again with the (completely untested, never mind unproven) claim that Firefox is only 'safer' because fewer people use it. This is a totally lazy way to defend M$, and sums up quite neatly as 'Everything else is as crap as IE', which is a ludicrous claim to make, without any proof. Firefox may or may not be a more secure browser. Personally I think it is, because the corporate culture of Mozilla is entirely different to that of M$, which is locked in a spiral of mediocrity and indifference, just the same as most monopolistic or quasi-monopolistic organisations. But even if FF's security is an illusion, it's one I'll happily make use of while the script kiddies and other assorted 'net morons are getting their kicks out of screwing up the PCs of the world's lazy M$-lovers.

As for your chat not working: the ethos of Open Source is that the community works together to develop better software. If you posted your problem on the Firefox forums, you might get a solution, and you might just help to improve the software for a future release. And don't forget, unless you happened to have this problem with the version of FF available today, you were using Beta software. Hardly a fair and direct comparison with something that is now on version 6 and *should be* a completely superb product. The fact that we're even contemplating an alternative is, to me at least, further indication of what a shoddy job M$ is doing with its web browser.