Now that Firefox 4 was launched it addressed some of the issues we had with past versions, thus making it better at least for Web development.

This article explains some of the top reasons why Firefox is still a better browser than Google Chrome to aid in our Web development work.

http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/147-Top-10-Reasons-Why-Firefox-is-still-Better-than-Chrome-for-Web-Development.html

For the end-user, it has alot of other issues. It is severely bloated, takes forever to download, requires a restart on installation, and is tied into the windows update utility.

It also has alot of security bugs, which we won’t go into, but this quote sums it up

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THE US GOVERNMENT has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Following a malware attack which targeted a known flaw in IE, like so many other attacks, the US-CERT recommended using alternative browsers thanks to their increased security.

Here are some more to read:

• What’s wrong with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8?
• CNet article about Internet Explorer 7
• Old but useful article about Coding for ‘Firefox’ and Hacking for ‘IE’
• Good article on IE 8
• Browsers compared (WiKi)