NYTimes on FireFox, Opera & Mozilla

Ms. Sandlin is so devoted to her browser that she has taped a note to her monitor warning guests not to click on the desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer. "Do not touch the blue 'E!' " the note says.

"I didn't want to fool with it anymore," said Ms. Sandlin, 51, an administrative assistant at Halifax Community College in Weldon, N.C. "I spent more time clicking pop-ups than I did surfing the Web."