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July 15, 2004 4:15 PM

I'm a Firefox Convert

I switched from Netscape to Internet Explorer when Windows 98 came out. Go figure. I've been stubbornly using IE and refused to even look at Mozilla / Firefox given that I spend so much of my time in email and I always felt (incorrectly) that Outlook and IE would be better integrated than Outlook and Firefox.

I've grown increasingly frustrated with IE lately for a variety of reasons, including some bugs that I can't figure out workarounds for, occassional grungy performance issues, endless popup Windows and Spyware problems, and all the well publicized security issues.

I decided to break down and give Firefox a try. I've been using it for two weeks and love it. If you are a heavy browser user and still using IE, you should absolutely consider Firefox. Following are some quick reasons:

  • Much faster / more consistent performance
  • No Spyware popups
  • Tabbed browsing (really wonderful for the heavy user)
  • Great password manager
  • Bookmark sync to an FTP server (for managing bookmarks across multiple screens)
  • Extensive Extensions (http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/)

As a NewsGator user, there's even an extension for subscribing to an RSS feed in NewsGator.

Thanks Ross for pushing me over the edge.

Posted in: Technology

COMMENTS (5)

Glad I finally convinced you Brad! Anyone reading this should download Firefox NOW! Don't wait, do it, you'll thank us for it!

Ross Carlson , July 15, 2004 5:35 PM

All you need to do now, to complete the warm and fuzzy experience, is ditch Windows and get a Mac instead... ;)

Andreas Duess , July 16, 2004 12:05 AM

Heh heh, Andreas beat me to the punch. :)

Mikey , July 16, 2004 1:28 AM

I've been using it for about a month and love it. But I do have one problem with it (as well as Netscape). My typepad hosted simplistic forms based blog does display properly...the banner image is cut off. I should ask Typepad to fix this. Even more, I should move to MT and move my blog over.
That said, it's significantly better than IE or Netscape (which AOHell has turned into an ad machine.)

Jerry , July 16, 2004 8:36 PM

I told you so! :)

Tom Bartel , July 20, 2004 4:14 PM

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