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(Unverified)Oct 13th 2006 10:46PM

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As a web developer I thought that I would really dig all of the neat features in Firefox. I gave it a try and I still have both browsers installed on my PC. But, I just find myself spending almost all of my time in IE.

In the end, most of the users who use my web sites are using IE. If I stick with IE, it is just one less thing that I have think about.

Yes, I know that Firefox has an IE plug-in so that I can easily check my web pages with both browsers -- and I have used that sometimes for checking my sites.

But, even with all the plug-ins, Firefox is just not compelling enough for me to switch. I've been doing tabbed browsing in IE for a long time now with the Yahoo Toolbar at first and now with the Windows Live toolbar.

I was a martyr for the underdog technologies for a while when I was a UNIX programmer and Linux user. That crap just gets tiring. I'm not a zealot either way with the browsers and I do think that Firefox is great. I just don't have the time to try to champion another underdog.

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