I would say that IE8 is now at least on par with Mozilla but with one fault; starting a new tab is SLOW. That is a deal breaker for me. The accelerators are neat but KALLOUT matches that feature nicely for Mozilla. I see no reason to switch from Mozilla at this time and learn a new GUI.

I spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the mess above the viewing area, getting rid of useless toolbars and junk in IE8. I also had to apply the registry patch to put the file menu above the address bar. I want the maximum space allocated to my web window, not the extra stuff MS wants to put there.