I use Firefox as my web browser and have been using it for years now. Never seems to be any problems and they are updating it constantly. I feel it beats Internet Explorer and I have downloaded many different toolbars to help me in my business. FireFox is free and you can download it by clicking on that link.

Here is a great tool to examine website characteristics and how search engines look upon them. You can see Google, Alexa, etc rankings as well as a list of sites that link back to the one your looking at and so much more. SEOBOOK is another free tool that you can download by clicking on the link.