A new, more polished, more stable version of the best browser ever was released today: FireFox 2.0. It has a cleaner interface, faster page rendering, a built-in spell checker, better handling of RSS feeds and add-ons, and a lot more. A quick and easy download, I strongly recommend you get it.

I personally like FireFox because it actually obeys web design standards, which makes my life a lot easier, as opposed to Internet Explorer. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, think of it like this: the XHTML/CSS involved in web site design is like a recipe. Say the recipe calls for the oven to be 400 degrees. On ovens made by Mozilla (FireFox), Opera, and Apple (Safari), asking for 400 degrees means you get 400 degrees. Even though manufacturing standards say all ovens should be able to be set to 400 degrees, Internet Explorer cannot be. For my recipe to work right on Microsoft’s Internet Exploder Oven, I have to include additional instructions for the oven to first heat to 500 degrees, then cool it down to 350 with ice, then add steps for building a fire in the oven to raise it to 400 with a rare redwood only available on the rocky slopes in the Washington state mountains carefully stacked to form a combination Microsoft-swastika symbol that must be ignited by two monkeys rubbing sticks together while they attempt to recite the version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet they banged out on typewriters while filling in for the engineers who were supposed to be designing the Internet Exploder Oven.

Maybe some day I’ll tell you how I really feel about Internet Explorer.

In an odd gesture of goodwill, check out what the Internet Explorer development team sent the FireFox team today.