What internet programs do you use, and why?

[dogscoff]

Firefox, Thunderbird at home, because they're good at what they do, and I used to use them on Windows and were available when I migrated to Linux. I'm tempted to try Opera again though (last used it at version 5, but dropped it when v6 was full of bloat). It had better have something as good as adblock on firefox though.

I use Lotus Notes at work. It is without doubt one of the worst computer programs I have ever used. It's hideous. I can't believe they charge real money for this crap. The only thing harder to believe is that my company paid for it, and expects me to use it.

I generally use IE for browsing at work, because that's what most of our customers use so I feel I ought to be familiar with it. Also, it makes me grateful to get home to firefox. Besides, it's not my machine, not my problem if it gets pwned=-) I do have a few other browsers installed though, for testing web pages and that.

Chat: Don't use it that often. Xubuntu came with a multi-network chat client that I have used a few times to connect to #ubuntu for technical advice, but I'm so disinterested I can't even remember what it's called. For a while on Windows I was using chatzilla, an IRC-plugin for firefox (yeah I know, how pointless is that?) which was OK.

The only chat network I will bother with is IRC, can't be doing with MSN, AIM and the rest.