Rating and comments for Firefox

Extremely slow. Eats memory. Requires a hundred
unsupported, buggy extensions just to offer basic
functionality.

Very customizable, robust, good community support, runs as a portable application, may be a little slow to start up. Can be pretty with the right themes, and has many powerful and interesting add-ons.

But Firefox is not 'open source' it is only free, like Opera.

The best browser out there. Firefox improves the net experience considerably. Someone said it best: 'If you're not using Firefox, you're not surfing the net, but suffering it!'. It has many useful features, such as tabbed browsing, and session saving. Easily customisable with add-ons for individual needs.

THE browser. Good bye IE. Forever.

Um... Ignore all of the above. It is NOT slow. It does kinda eat memory, but not with the newer versions, and, still, less than IE 6 during the same task. Basic functionality is there by default, more than IE 7, even. Extensions are rarely buggy, especially ones still being developed. And, they add features I've never seen in apps or IE addons (even the IE addons that are EXPENSIVE. o.O) And, yes, it is open source. It is a bit buried, as Firefox is progressively going to lower and lower computer knowledgeable crowd. Try it once. You'll never load IE again. Oh, and it's standards compliant. :D

It's the add-ons / plug-ins / extensions that make Firefox spank IE all over the place. The default Firefox is a capable browser with pop-up blocking and phishing protection and good support for HTML standards. But slap some add-ons in there, and you turn it in to something that blows anything IE7 can do out of the water. I do notice that it leaks memory a bit if I leave my system up for a few days and hibernate / revive it a few times; it is only a minor quibble.

One of the best browsers, if not the best. The M$ creature must die ;)

Waiting for the release of 3.0...

Extremely slow. Eats memory. Requires a hundred
unsupported, buggy extensions just to offer basic
functionality. Oh we're talking about Firefox?

That's awesome.