Mozilla Firefox is Better Than IE
I downloaded Mozilla Firefox on June 26, 2005, after visiting the eloquently simpleBrowse Happy website (a WordPress site, btw). The website’s testimonials sold me enough to download and try it. It was love at first sight.
Netscape was my first web browser, back in the mid-1990s when Windows 3.1 was being replaced by Windows 95. I carefully tracked the different versions as they came out during the “browser wars.” I distinctly remember feeling settled into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser around version 4.0, when Windows 95 finally stabilized. By the advent of Windows XP, I would never have dreamed that I would switch browsers; hadn’t even thought about it, until this summer, when I ran across Browse Happy’s convincing arguments against IE.
I love Firefox, even though it is not perfect. Tabbed browsing is something I’ve used every session, and IE just can’t compete with the tab thing. Plug-ins and extensions have integrated RSS, Winamp, and adblocking perfectly with my browser. These extras are attractive to me, because the whole “safer-than-IE” argument only goes so far. Safe isn’t necessarily sexy! But these plug-ins sure are! Another selling point (even though it’s free) is that firefox goes to great lengths to be as perfectly compatible with Windows and other things Microsoft as they can be. It’s cool to be different than IE, but Firefox would suck if it broke my Windows; it doesn’t. Firefox is wise; it doesn’t have a “Death To Microsoft” attitude, like many geekwares do.
So, what are you waiting for?
DOWNLOAD FIREFOX AND START EXPERIENCING A BETTER BROWSER THAN MICROSOFT’S!
inspectaneck
August 5th, 2005 at 11:19:14 amI’ve been using it for a whlie and agree that the hiccups (like not being able to use certain websites) are worth dealing with. The overall browsing experience is much more enjoyable. How did I live before without tabbed browsing? I also love the downTHEMall! plugin for mass downloading of web content (like .JPGs).
And your views on this are so balanced and white hat. Everything here was well put.
Andreas
August 25th, 2005 at 3:28:55 amAll the things you like in Firefox are in the new Internet Explorer 7. If I were you, I would wait a couple of months till IE7 arrives..
Administrator
August 25th, 2005 at 7:01:19 amI’m skeptical, Andreas, because there are dozens of things FF does that IE doesn’t, but I will no doubt check it out. Anyway, why wait? I’m already loving Firefox!
Jim
PS: Thanks for posting!