A while back I was looking for an app to do some analysis of my blog logs.  I found a little app named 123loganalyzer, and started playing with it.  I ran it probably about 5 times in my 30 day trial and was able to get a good idea of what was going on.  Then, on the 31st day, the app timed out of course.  I debated purcashing it, but decided to start looking again to see whats out there.  I am really surprised at the lack of really any free tools other then awstats. 

So I gave another app a shot, but this time I'm even more impressed.  I've been playing with Surfstats, and really like the app.  And, it's even cheaper then 123.  I might pony up for this in 30 days, or I'm really debating my first whidbey project being an iislog analyzer.

Anyway, none of this is the point of the post.  In going through my logs, something struck me as very surprising.  I was looking at my browser logs, and guess who was not on top?  In fact, guess who wasn't even in the top two.  IE.  I was floored. 

The top browser, and by a decent margin, was mozilla.  In a not so close second is Bloglines.  I still can't believe it as I type this.  So, of course, this peaked my interest.  Off to download firefox.

I played with it for all of about 30 minutes, and am pretty darn impressed.  Only took a couple pages to get used to, and really like the tabbed interface.  This was not the only thing I like about it.  I started looking at the plugins to see what else was out there, and was again impressed with the community that is coming to light here.  My search bar now has options for google, dictionary.com, ebay, as well as some others.  Theres even a plugin that shows the current http headers.  I dig this.

Unfortunatley, though, I already see a couple issues.  And of course they are most noticable on Microsoft sites.  First thing I did when I opened firefox is set my homepage to msdn like I always do, and could tell immediatley the page wasn't 100%.  The question now, will I keep it around.  I really like it, and will use it for some browsing, but I highly doubt I will like having browsing browser options.  I just don't see me having my own little browser war with myself.