Firefox is readying itself for yet another major release. That is an amazing feat by itself when you consider the fact that, they had another major release, called Firefox 3.0, less than a year ago. Now it is time for highly revised and improved Firefox 3.5. You can even give it a try by installing the release candidate vesrion called Firefox 3.5RC2 in your Ubuntu. But we recommend you to wait until the official release of Firefox 3.5 which is safer. Firefox 3.5RC2 is only for testing purposes.
Firefox is a not only a choice, but a better alternative to Internet Explorer for GNU/Linux users. Windows version of Firefox is also available for download for free. But some sites may not at all show up properly in Firefox. This has nothing to do with Firefox, it is more or less an issue on part of the designers of the site itself. Since Internet Explorer does not have a Linux version, you will have to use wine to install and run Internet Explorer in Ubuntu. We have compiled a step by step procedure on how to install Internet Explorer in Ubuntu with useful screenshots.
There has been certain issues with the recent updates of Firefox in Ubuntu 8.10. After installing all the recent updates in Ubuntu intrepid ibex, Firefox may start showing up some errors while trying to run the same. The most common error is the one which Firefox simply fails to start with an error message "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b3 and 1.9b3".