I think the "very least a browser should do" is probably the the last thing most people would even care about or want to do IMO. IE6 & MSN may be able to read HTML correctly in most all cases but it does so like a 90 year old man with coke bottle glasses...slow!

I haven't seen stats lately but the last time I did (not long ago) the majority of people in the world were still on dial-up though that was changing fast...now if your on dial-up then MSN/IE6 have got to be the slowest things you could use, Mozilla/Firebird/Opera are far Superior and do most tasks correctly 99.9% of the time. I doubt that people on high-speed internet could care less about browser speed...or do they ?

I based my decision on browser choice by the *real* "very least a browser should do"[security]never ending security issues[/security].

Hey I think we can all agree that its great to have many options I'm glad Firebird is one of them