Alternative to Internet Explorer
Just thought I’d mention this. I downloaded & installed Mozilla Firefox (a free browser). I am greatly impressed. I get absoultely no popups, spyware, etc. Seems to run faster than IE & also seems to be much more stable. I highly reccomend it.
October 25th, 2005 at 7:33 am
Jek installed Firefox on my computer months ago….. I’ve been using it ever since with no problems of any kind, so I guess you’d call that a second on recommending it…..
October 25th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
One of the best features of Firefox (and the Mozilla family of browsers) is Tabbed Browsing. This allows you to have multiple “browser windows” open in one instance of the program — so that means only one taskbar item. If you already have Firefox, check out the Tabbrowser Preferences extension. It lets you move the tabs down to the bottom of the screen, among other things.
If you don’t have Firefox, you can download Firefox here. On a Mac, I like Camino best. (I’m using it now, in fact.) Check Camino out here.
October 26th, 2005 at 10:36 am
Firefox is great.
I’ve never been able to get into the tabbed browsing, though.
October 26th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Tabbed browsing rules. I’ve been using Mozilla/Firefox for years, and frankly I can’t imagine life without tabbed browsing. For instance, I have a bookmark folder that contains my favorite blogs, so I can click on it and say “Open in tabs”, and each blog opens on its own tab, where I can then quickly scan from tab-to-tab. When I end up in a situation where I’m forced to use IE, I’m always dismayed when the “open in tab” shortcut (holding down ctrl when you click on a link) doesn’t work.
October 26th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
TTop mentions on one of the reasons I really like tabbed browsing: while on a page, you can middle-click links to have them open up in new tabs in the background. For example, assume you are visiting CNN’s website and you are interested in several news articles, rather than moving forward and back several times, you can merely middle-click the links of interest and look at them in tabs, closing the tabs as you’re finished.
Also, I usually bring up separate browser instances for different search tasks. Say I want to research new tub/shower faucets and check on flights to Oklahoma. I use two browser instances, each with tabs related to the search task. Otherwise I’d have lots of browser instances scattered around.
October 27th, 2005 at 7:04 am
Sounds like I need to “Explore” my Firefox browser a little further…… Seems I was unaware of lots of the cool stuff……
October 27th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Have you officially “Fired” IE, MR? (tongue firmly in cheek)
October 28th, 2005 at 8:56 am
jek, in my advanced age, I’m having trouble figuring out the “tabbed browsing”. What do you mean by “middle clicking the link”?
October 28th, 2005 at 9:58 am
By middle-click, I mean click a link using the middle mouse button. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, usually it’s a button too. Try middle-clicking one of the archives to the right, say may 2005. It should now load in a separate tab and a tab bar should appear above your browser screen. The middle-click may not work on Firefox without the Tabbed Preferences extension installed. (See Comment 2 above.) Even without it, you should be able to right-click a link and choose Open In Tab (or something like that).