I decided to try out Mozilla's Firefox. I haven't used it much so far so I'm still undecided as to whether it will become my main browser or not, but I like the tabbed windows. With it, I'm able to set my regular start page, my blog, and my MT page all as my homepage.
The popup/popunder blocker is good too. A problem I have with the popup blocker I usually use (the one in the Google toolbar) is that I like to play games and some of them open in a popup. Firefox lets me add URLs of sites that I don't want to be blocked.
So far, every site I've looked at appears much the same as it does in IE. My biggest problem is that I visit several sites that remember me when I'm using IE but now I have to remember the username and password so I can log in with Firefox. So far, so good, but since I use many different names and passwords (based on some random thing I was thinking about when I first signed up with the site) my memory is bound to fail at some point. If I'm lucky it won't be one that I signed up with two or three ISPs/emails ago and I'll be able to recover my info.
I hope I like it. Netscape 4.something used to be my favorite browser. I gave it up when there got to be too many sites that wouldn't work with it. (It made things a bit difficult since I spend a lot of time reviewing sites for JoeAnt.)
Posted by marybeth at July 16, 2004 01:09 PM Internet