Firefox is a great browser, it has the best cross-platform compatibility and with this 'gladder' extension it seems even more viable. hopefully more people will switch to it.
as a follow up to the 'amandas-proxy' submission above, as of Sunday July 1st, it seem to have hit China's 'hitlist' and been blocked
at the time i'd been noticing erratic behaviour with my ADSL connection - dropped connections almost constantly, firewall was going nuts with inbound connection attempts... it sounds kinda paranoid but it's something worth considering and taking note of if you interested in researching 'sensitive' subjects.