Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 11:59:12 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 If you think the default FireFox is good, try out the MOOX builds. Not only are they faster in loading, but they also bring up websites just as quick as IE. It also doesn't seem to have the Flash bug where when flash items are on a site, the cpu usage goes through the roof. You can find them here: http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ I have been using Mozilla/FireFox for a number of years. IE and it's support for ActiveX installs was just to scary.. and I mean scary. And now with sites using code that automatically installs dialers, spyweare, and even virii without your knowledge is main reason I will never use IE again. No matter how good your "hosts" file is at blocking things, and how much you tweak against installers with IE something still gets in. I used to have 400 items a week in my adware/spyware scans. Now I have almost nothing. Maybe 1 or 2 a week, and those come from Outlook. Try Thunderbird as well for your email client. It is terrific. Just don't import a list from Outlook... I found that out the hard way. :) Peter
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