I concur

Steven Vaughan-Nichols of eWeek is saying that its now just too dangerous to run Internet Explorer any more. As of last Friday he ditched Exploder as his #1 browser on Windows and switched to Mozilla Firefox. I concur with his opinion and have been running Mozilla as my #1 browser for a long time - in fact since about Mozilla 1.2 came out.

For the record I have recently switched to Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail client, before that I was using just pure Mozilla and I haven't used Outlook or any alternative unless forced to by work policies for years. In fact the only thing I use Outlook for is as an address book since I'm afraid its address book facility still beats the pants of any alternative. That's only be because Outlook supports almost every field under-the-sun for each contact, so many that I've never had the need to add a custom field. I wish Thunderbird or some other common LDAP schema did as much.

The only time I ever fire up Internet Explorer is when Windows XP relies on some funky IE only Active X control to do stuff like an upgrade. I find it very iritating that I still have to do this, why can't we have a standalone application so I can finally ban the IE icon from my desktop?