About two-thirds of Net users have the antiquated IE6 or the newer IE7, and a third use Firefox. But almost all tech reviewers, such as Cnet.com and PC World, rate Firefox as the better browser. It has a lot of useful features such as tabbed browsing, spell checker, popup blocker, session restore, text resizing, and a host of others.

Isn’t it maddening to be clicking the button so many times – and reloading pages – just to get to a previous Web page? How about the mess of all those open IE windows? Try Firefox’s tabbed browsing, and you can have 10 or 20 or more pages open at the same time in just one window, instantly accessible with a single click! And even if there’s a power outage, all those Web pages are easily restored the next time you open Firefox.

Pesky spam and virus problems? It’s because of IE, which those nasty nerds out there target with unflagging zeal (who can stand Bill Gates’ gazillion gold bars?), while leaving Firefox alone. Identity theft? Not to worry, Firefox has its own “phishing” protection and can clear all your private data.

So, to pry you off from IE to Firefox, you can download my one-page Firefox Installation Guide (file is in PDF ). Try it now! You’ll be asking yourself why you didn’t do it earlier. It won’t break your computer, either, unlike those endless, useless and often disastrous Microsoft updates.