Firefox is an excellent internet browser that runs on both Linux and Windows machines. It can be downloaded here.

Some of the features I particulary like:

The search toolbar. You can add your own favourites here. Note for Linux users: You need to change the permissions of /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/searchplugins to 777 (read-write-execute for everyone). The command is chmod 777 /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/searchplugins I'm not sure whether its a security hole if you leave it like that, but you can set it back to 755 after loading the plugin.

Live RSS feeds. If you haven't discovered RSS, this is a great way of getting news feeds in a way that eliminates endless browsing from site to site. The bookmarks sidebar gives you all the current articles for each selected feed.

Tabbed windows. You can have as many browser windows open as you like, all arranged as tabs at the top of the page. Very convenient.

Its fast

and especially, its not M$ ...just goes to show that monopolistic and predatory business practices do not lead to better technology.