Switched to FireFox
I have been using Internet Explorer for quite some time now. Last week, my friend introduced me to Firefox and I was immediately hooked! Why? Here are some reasons:
- First off, I like its speed. On any site, it downloads the text first and then the images. This way, you can start reading content as soon as it is available. In IE, I used to wait for entire page to load because if I keep scrolling while it is loading, my page looks like a barcode piece with all images and text elongated (until the page is completely rendered)
- The menus and options are quick slick and I can find the ones that I want very easily. I also like the alerts that get displayed in the pages when something is missing. For example, if you do not have the Macromedia Flash player, you will get an alert at the top and a image placeholders that you can click to then download it.
- This is the feature that I like best: Whenever Firefox detects that a site has an RSS feed, it shows an orange image at the status bar. Clicking this, you can then subscribe to the RSS feed and all the newly published articles are right there in your toolbar! With this, I do not have to write my own RSS reader or visit the web page to find out what's new. Its all there in my toolbar. Really cool!!
- I can search on Google, Amazon, EBay etc right from the toolbar and do not have to visit that particular site.
- The tabbing feature is also really good. Rather than having multiple instances of the browser open when you click to open in a new window, Firefox opens it as a new tab that you can then view independently and close too. I found this invaluable when I had to recently do some searching for WMI. I just kept opening tabs and was seamlessly sifting through them (rather than pressing Ctrl+Tab to cycle through the instances).
Interested? Download it here: Firefox. You can read about the features here: Firefox Features and finally, a good comparison with Internet Explorer: Comparison