Firefox Browser

I remember the loyalty I once felt towards Netscape Navigator in 1998, thinking that Internet Explorer (v.2) was a poor substitute being pushed by that monopolist up in Redmond. I did shortly adopt IE3 and haven't looked back since (at least until today when I finally got Mozilla Firefox installed)... For the past five years I've been very happy with IE, and assumed that Mr. Gates had won the browser wars. Although Netscape continued to be updated it has always seemed clunkier; but Firefox opens a new chapter. I've got that same warm fuzzy feeling for Firefox as when I realized IE had surpassed NN. Here's why:

1) Firefox loads pages faster than IE,

2) it has "tabbed" browsing,

3) you can add on some cool extensions, like:

- tabs switch on mouseover instead of click

- a weather forecast built into status bar

- right-click to dictionary look-up

- auto-copy text (selecting text copies it, no need to Ctrl-C)

4) it puts the "Go" back in the menu (this was the one element of Navigator that I always missed; the "History... View by order visited today" functionality of IE always seemed a little hidden to me),

5) one of the default bookmarks is an RSS feed of headlines from BBC,

6) it's an easy 4.7Mb download & install (no "profiles" to set up, no adware or extras).

If you do decide to download Mozilla's Firefox, don't confuse it with Mozilla's Mozilla suite (another browser from the same company). There's also another browser named Opera that I have not yet tried, that has similar features to Firefox, but it looks like it includes integrated email & chat which I'm not really interested in.