Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla Firefox
It has come to my attention recently that many of you who are using Internet Explorer to view this blog have been seeing a screwed-up version of this page. There are a bunch of menus that are on the right-hand sidebar which get uncerimoniously shoved to the bottom of the page when viewed with IE.
You see, for the past few weeks, and ever since I started this blog, I’ve been browsing exclusively with Mozilla Firefox. Never heard of it? Well, let me fill you in:
Firefox is what all the latest internet-geeks (and geek-wannabees) use for surfing. It’s the Pentium 4 of web browsers, while Internet Explorer is the IBM 386 of web browsers. Why is Firefox so good, you ask?
Well, I’m not about to do a whole comparison here, but the best way to put it is that it does everything that you wished Internet Explorer did, but doesn’t. One example:
I like to open things in new windows. I hate having to keep hitting the “back” and “forward” buttons to switch between webpages, because I have to wait for the page to reload each time. In IE, when you open something in a new window, it opens on top of the current window, and you have to re-size it, or minimize it, if you want to keep reading the current page before looking at the new stuff you just opened…
In Firefox, you can open new pages in “tabs”, which don’t overlap what you’re currently looking at, but will load while you’re still browsing something else. Then, when you want to check out the thing you just clicked on, you just click on the tab, and you’re there. No reloading, no interruption of what you’re doing. I know it sounds like a small thing, but I can’t imagine not having this feature now.
So, the moral of this post is download Firefox (it’s free!) and see this page the way it was meant to be seen! And for those still stuck in the dark ages with Internet Explorer, you might want to take a quick break right now to organize your Betamax tapes, or listen to an 8-track.
Another new browser the JUST launched that a lot of tech people are talking about is called “Flock”. I think a lot of it’s underlying architecture is based on Firefox… but it has a great new way to bookmark pages and incorporates with Blogging brilliantly. I jsut downloaded it… it’s pretty sweet so far… but I’m not about to give up my Firefox just yet.
If you wanna check it out it’s at www.flock.com
Comment by Administrator — October 21, 2005 @ 10:59 pm
I concur. Firefox kicks rumps.
Also, many of the malicious scripts that are designed to work on Internet Exploiter just fail on Firefox. And thats not to mention the built in popup blocker and Google toolbar.
Comment by Rodney — October 22, 2005 @ 5:18 am
Mozilla Firefox > MSIE
Comment by Emma — November 15, 2005 @ 9:52 pm