Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Firefox, the browser

I switched to Firefox, the Mozilla browser around November 2004 or thereabouts, because I was tired of the crappy Internet Explorer. It seemed like every time I opened IE, there would be spyware on my pc. My laptop btw is still suffering from the after effects of IE. Firefox is wonderful and I've convinced about 20 more people to switch.

Browser showdown

My second favorite feature is the tabbed browsing. You wont believe the ease of it till u've tried it. The best feature is that it closes more vulnerabilities than IE. If firefox gets more market share though, more spyware will popup to attack it. Bring on Open Source. Firefox is free. That means the code too. 20 Million people debugging for spyware against a few hundred spyware makers seems like excellent odds to me.

Microsoft is now in Netscape's place. It has had a dominant market share for so long that it appeared to simply throw up its hand and declare "its finished -- we don't need to make any more changes." Firefox has really come along and showed users they don't need to stick with Microsoft's crappy browser for everday web browsing. Try Firefox, you might like it.

Download the newest version here.

8 comments:

Jaime said...

Check out http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage

I added one to my site.

Jon451 said...

I think I will.>!! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Yay, Firefox! I love tabbed browsing, keeps everything so neat :)

I have never used IE recreationally except way back in the mid-nineties when I didn't know my ass from my elbow. I have to use it at work though, I wonder why companies can't see the advantages of free, open-source software. They would also save a bundle using Open Office.

Ana - Independence of
Mind

Anonymous said...

I prefer Opera myself. Has some features that you can only access in Firefox via plugins/extensions. Tabbed browsing is great. Tabbed browsing with mouse gestures is lazy man paradise!

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