“Try something open source”
I guess I totally missed out on it, because it was apparently released on February 12 this year. Anyways, today, I tried something open source – the “new” (if you can call it that…) Firefox 3.0. First of all, it looks MUCH nicer than the older Firefox. As for Internet Explorer, it’s not even worth comparing. After using this “new” Firefox, I think it’s safe to assume that I am never going to use IExplorer again. Ever.
The Advantages of Firefox (from my experience):
Video streams much much faster. Whenver I watch a TV show or something online, it always suggests Firefox, because of the faster streaming capabilities, as opposed to Internet explorer.
Next, it looks a million times better. I especially like the blue buttons, and the awesome colour scheme. It’s so visually appealing.
It has much better parent filtering. If you are a parent, and want to make sure all the sites that your kids are going on are “safe”, then use Firefox. The new foxfilter is so much more efficient at blocking “harmful” sites than the archaic methods used by Internet Explorer.
I find this next one very useful. When you click on a link from your firefox browser, firefox opens that page in another tab, whereas Internet Explorer is defaulted to open in another window. Even if you change the settings, Internet Explorer still has problems opening your links in another tab, rather than in another window.
Lastly, and this is very important, as I’ll explain soon, is that Firefox’s logo is sooo much better than Internet Explorer’s. Firefox has a nice little fox wrapped around in a circle, and it looks really nice, against the blue background. On the other hand, Internet Explorer has this big ugly “e”. How creative is that? And it’s so annoying to look at too. Think about it, if you are going to be clicking on an icon for the rest of your life, everytime you want to open up a web browser, which one would you want to click? A big old bland “e”, or a nice fox that looks like it’s on fire?
HM
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