This is an intervention — you need to let go of your crippling Internet Explorer addiction.

Please don't cry!

Look, Internet Explorer hasn't cared about you for a long time. It was always doing just enough to string you along. Always promising that it would clean up and fly straight if you gave it just a "bit more time baby".

Don't believe the lies! It just wants to drag you deep into the rabbit hole, desperately trying to find some way of luring you back to the desktop. Can't really blame it, though: It's driven by an unquenchable Windows desktop revenue, and the promise of loads of easy money and absolute control. You can't expect it to act rationally.

And we didn't want to say anything, but honestly it's just embarrassing when you excitedly gush about the great new features in Internet Explorer when they're features that everyone else has been using for years.

Yeah, tabbed browsing and popup-blockers were innovative...five years ago.

Stop enabling! It's time to make a clean break and move on.

It's time for you to join the Firefox family.

Speed. Security. Stability. The infinite flexibility and power of add-ons. The amazing standards support. The forward-looking features and improvements that promise an amazing new tapestry of web functionality and power. Not to mention the countless benefits it brings to web developers.

Please give Firefox a serious chance (if you're a crazy rebel living on the edge, then try the beta!).

The open source hippies/commies won't start squatting in your backyard if you upgrade to this remarkably-awesome, open-source application platform.

I promise.