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Subject: Re: OT: Firefox

Author: Rex

Date: 07:35:54 01/03/05

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On January 03, 2005 at 03:24:11, Will Singleton wrote:

>Many years ago I started using Mosiac, must have been around 1994.  Although
>there wasn't much content available, it was clear where things were going.  Soon
>after I switched to Netscape, a great leap forward for me, which I used through
>version 4.7.  Netscape seemed to implode after that, so I switched to IE
>sometime around 1999, and have used it since then.  Until yesterday.
>
>I've always been happy with IE, but recently I've had unexplained slowdowns,
>timeouts, and general weirdness.  So I thought, why not give Firefox a try.  I
>did, and now IE is a thing of the past.  No more slow loading, timeouts, web
>pages displaying garbled text, overlapped frames, etc.  It is simple, clean and
>easy to use.  I spent a few hours today customizing it, getting used to tabbing,
>setting up bookmarks, figuring out the keyboard and mouse shortcuts, reading the
>help files.  If you give it a few hours time, you'll realize it's a superior
>product.
>
>Anyway, this is all imho, ymmv, what the heck.  But it worked for me, and I hope
>it works for you.
>
>Will


I too use Firefox 1.0 and enjoy it.  Much better caching which is nice with a
dialup modem.  I also am now using Thunderbird and dumped Outlook Express.  Give
it a try.  Nice to use with my gmail pop account.

This too is a little off topic, but is a good cause to support, join Team
Firefox

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=39299



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