Author: Ismenio Sousa
Date: 13:47:05 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 Will, I am myself a Firefox user since version 0.something! I run my own unscientific tests and it was faster than IE on two computers. I really enjoy Firefox for a lot of reasons but here are my top ones: 1. Tabbed browsing - sweeeeet! I can have multiple pages/site in just one place. And I can opne my favorite pages all at once with just one click and Ctrl-Tab to circle through them 2. No pop ups at all 3. The non-intrusive search function which is at the bottom of the page and not as a dialog blocking my view 4. Pages now print exactly as they appear on the screen. I can't do that with IE - it always chops off the rightmost characters when I print it, and that goes for v5 and v6 5. Out of the box, smart, plug ins for Google, Amazon, eBay and Dictionary.com Ismenio
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