I'm using the Firefox browser right now and love it. It DEFINITELY loads pages faster then IE, and is extremely user friendly. I also really like the "tabbed" browsing. I always hated when IE would open up a new browser window every time I opened a new link etc... In addition, it is doing an extremely good job of eliminating pop ups!

As far as memory usage goes, it is using far fewer resources as well:

Prior:
iexplore.exe was using 49,428k

Now:
firefox.exe is using only 22,996k

One question, explorer.exe is still running in the background. Do I need it? If not, how can I shut it off?