Firefox 1.0 was released yesterday. I suggest upgrading, and if you don’t have it already, get it! It’s better than IE in every respect. Yes, every. All of them.
…besides integration into the operating system, which is a horrible horrible idea in the first place. But I bet there some sort of extension to take care of that!
Anyway, try it out. It’s lightweight, it imports your current browser settings, it does everything IE does, it’s much safer and secure than IE, and a whole freaking lot more. And now that it’s “officially” been released, you have no excuse not to be using it!
I’ll stick with Mozilla. I don’t like the way they had to make Firefox into an IE clone because the only market they care about is clueless people.
Primarily I’m pissed that I can’t turn OFF dumb crap that’s originally from IE like autocompletion of URLs (I guess that feature is ubiquitous nowadays, but I’ve been using Netscape since the early beta versions and I still can’t get used to a browser assulting me with possible completions whenever I try to type in a url). You can turn off favicons (ugh favicons are such a terrible idea, especially if you request /favicon.ico on every web page regardless of meta tags like Firefox does), but you have to muck around with about:config and you shouldn’t have to.
Well okay, Mozilla’s fine too. You know that if I have to write a description like that, it’s aimed toward IE users.
I actually use Mozilla too, but just for work. Just to save the work of setting up different profiles every time I connect through VPN, I load Mozilla instead of Firefox, that already has all of my work-specific proxies and other settings… and I use its mail client, which, for security issues, should be completely separate from my regular mail client anyway, etc. etc.
I’m using Opera, it’s similar in a sense that they both have multiwindows in a window… or something
just as long as i can FINALLY download files and have it finally play animated .gifs then i’m spiffy.
oh hey, i was at this tech conference last week, and this one dude from sun microsystems (i think) gave firefox a shot out and a couple of people were hella cheering and apluading. how about that.
that was almost radder than the guy who was grunter and hollering at IP Phones and Customizable Toolbars in the Salesforce.com 5 Winter Model.
YESSSH
i don’t need excuses. i have my horribly annoying personality to fall back on.
Well, actually Firefox can’t do quite a few tricks that IE can (esp. websites that whore out the `documents.all’ JS struct). But still! Firefox can do fine most of what you need, it’s open source, and it doesn’t let random people run arbitrary code on your computer simply because they paid M$ for that stupid code signing certificate thing! What can we say? 😀
Firefox. Thunderbird. <333333333333333