We're no fans of M$ and have always used the Netscape/Mozilla family of browsers instead of their crappy one.
Did you know that IE is not only lacking many of the features Mozilla has, such as tabbed browsing, but it's
also reputed to be the LEAST SECURE browser around? Instead of using the bloated, featureless browser put out
by M$, treat yourself to one of the Mozilla family of browsers. Firefox is a standalone browser, Thunderbird
is a standalone e-mail/news client, the Mozilla Suite contains a browser, e-mail and newsgroup clients,
and a web page composer, and Camino is a standalone browser for Mac OSX. We're on Linux, but there are
versions of Mozilla browsers for all major operating systems--and they're all free!
We've put together some graphics that illustrate some of Mozilla's features. Take a look so you can see what
you're missing if you're still using IE. One of the greatest features of all Mozilla products is the
ability
to customize the heck out of them by use of extensions. These are small add-ons you can install
directly
from the Mozilla site, and there are hundreds of them available. There are extensions available to
do things
that may have never even occurred to you! Check out the Mozilla extensions or the
Firefox extensions
pages to see all the amazing things you can add to your browser.
NOTE: If you are using IE, after the image has finished loading it may display in a shrunken [unreadable!]
version; if so, just click anywhere WITHIN the image and then select the icon that pops up on the image saying
"Expand to regular size."
The snapshot below illustrates the e-mail/newsgroup client included with the Mozilla Suite. Note the different
colors in the message--that's a function of the quote colors extension. As with all aspects of Mozilla
software, it's highly customizable; you can choose the colors you want for each level of quoting in a message.
In our example, the original poster's comments are in green, the first person to reply is in orange, the second
person who replied is in purple, and the third person's comments are in black. This makes keeping track of
highly-quoted messages a breeze.
Once you've realized what you've been missing and are ready to explore Mozilla for yourself, you can visit
Mozilla.org for more information and to download the FREE software.
