I did it... now will I like it long term
Well, I switched to Firefox today. I like it. It seems a bit faster (not that you can tell on the Internet here) and I like the extensions. The thing I like the best is the built in RSS reading abilities. Since I don't have XP, I can't get Blog Navigator. But now I can just use Firefox to see what's new much faster. I also really like the tabbed browsing. I don't know if there's much advantage over multiple windows (yet) but at least I can see it all on one page. One thing I don't like is how the cursor is. It covers up part of the letter I'm typing so I can't see things like I, l, j, i, etc. One other thing is: how do I remove search engines from the search bar. I haven't found how to do that yet. I found how to add them, but not remove them.
Unless I find something I really don't like about Firefox, I'm sticking with it (except for when I get some annoying web page that needs IE... but such is life)