text: in terms of reliability, it ranks number one due to the security it offers.\n\nInternet explorer is known to be exploited by hackers simply because it is in every windows machine, which results for 98 percent of computer users world wide\n\nif you go with a lesser known, but popular browser, hackers are much less likely motivated to find a crack because the payoff is not enough for the time it takes to write a virus\nto the point of penetration in the Internet atmosphere.\n\nthe makers of fire-fox have come out with a revamped version of Mozilla, a popular software that has been on the scene for many years. check out the link