Those of us who develop websites need to be able to test in as many browsers as possible. This is no problem for folks who have multiple computers to run with different configurations. Not everybody has that luxury. I do count myself fortunate to have an old laptop running windows 98 and therefore I did not hesitate to update my XP system ot the new IE7 browser; please bear in mind that I have not used Internet Explorer for anything but testing for maybe four years or so.

Meanwhile, the folks who provide the Firefox browser have come out with a new browser as well. This is the browser I use as default and any silliness would hit me right where I live. The version I am running right now is 1.5.0.8 and I am very happy with it. This is the same version I have on my Linux and WinXP install. I do understand that this version will be supported for some time to come.

Maybe you find yourself in a similar situation. I mean, maybe Firefox is doing fine and all, but you wonder what all the hoopla is about with the new 2.0 version. I must admit, I don't really even know if you can run both versions concurrently. I suspect you cannot. Do yourself a favor and don't even worry about it. Download the Portable Firefox from John Haller's domain and enjoy the best of both worlds. One at a time, of course, bucause you cannot have two instances of Firefox open at once. Or so it says. Although Portable Firefox is designed to run from an external USB thingy, it will run just fine from wherever you say without touching your settings.

Have fun with it.