I found a website called “BrowseHappy“, an advocate site for alternate web browsers like Firefox and Opera. One of the cool features of the site is that in addition to giving the technical reasons why MS Internet Explorer is unsafe, they also give testimonies from regular people who’ve switched

I think for most of the people in the world, hearing that there is an exploit in Windows XP “SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user’s system” doesn’t really carry much weight, but they would be interested to hear the story of “Karen, a 38 yr old housewife with a son of 9 and daughter of 11” and how her everyday problems with Internet Explorer were solved when she switched to Firefox.

So, read some of the articles, and make the switch… you can always go back, but I don’t think you will. If you do have any questions, I’d love to help you. And you have your own stories about web browsers (good or bad), please post them in the comments. I’d like to hear them.