I was a dedicated Netscape user for many years, until finally, several years back, Internet Explorer eclipsed Netscape in functionality. Then I finally broke down and switched, but it’s always bothered me. However, recently, I discovered there is hope…
I just installed Mozilla Firefox 0.9, and, frankly I’m blown away. Not only does it seem to render pages faster than IE, but it has more features (hooray for tabbed browsing!!) and extensions and themes! So now I have a browser that not only blocks pop-up windows, but also filters out on page ads! Thanks to a little extension called AdBlock. And honestly, I have only discovered a handful of sites that only work with IE (mostly due to Active X stuff) and they are sites I can either live without, or fire up IE just for dealing with those sites.
Oh yeah, and since Microsoft doesn’t seem to care about making IE safe from a number of different security flaws, I’m glad not to use it. I’ll report more later, after I’ve been using Firefox for a while.
Interesting… this link consistantly crashes Safari.
Good choice. No reason to ever go back. Next step: Dump Windows altogether! I don’t think I’ve ever talked to anyone who’s made that decision and regretted it.
Glad you got hipped to the vastly superior browser that is Firefox. Been using it for a couple of versions and I haven’t looked back. (Though I still have to keep copies of IE6 around to test webpages – to make sure they still work correctly for the masses.)
Got many of my co-workers using it too!