]> http://www.astralpedestrian.com/software en http://www.astralpedestrian.com/firefox_internet_browser <div class="flexinode-2"><div class='flexinode-main-text'> <div class='artist_info'><div class="flexinode-image-51"></div><div class="flexinode-textarea-11"><div class="form-item"> <p>If you are still using Internet Explorer then you are missing out. Firefox is free, extremely secure, displays web pages correctly (unlike IE!), updated frequently, has 100's of additional modules for anything you can think of. 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