Saturday, May 10, 2003
I'm off "e" - Red Lizards everywhere!
Internet Explorer (6.0) has not been my default browser for over a month now. It just wasn't good enough. OK, the geezer from Redmond does give it to you when they force you to have his OS when you buy a PC. You know what? It's OK, you don't have to click on that blue "e" anymore!.
I have a browser that is free, that comes with an excellent e-mail and newsgroups programme, (hey, no more Outlook Express!) a useful web-page editor (that is getting better all the time, it will soon have a style-sheet editor and all sorts), and an address book. My browser can do more than IE:
- it can be set to block pop-up ads from all or any sites that annoy you.
- It can stop animated images from endlessly looping.
- it can be set not to show adverts or images from all or certain sites
- It has a cookie, password, forms and download manager
- it has a great Print Preview function.
- there are all sorts of plugins that can be added on, from the Google toolbar to advanced web developer tools
- it has tabbed browsing!
- You can highlight a word or phrase and do a search in Google with a right-click!
- I can't go on, it'll take all night...
My browser is only a 12MB download (IE 6 is up to 60 MB, nigh impossible on a dial up connection) and you can have it in most languages. The latest version is numbered 1.31 although there is a 1.4 beta version available for those who don't mind the bugs.
My browser is called Mozilla. If you tend to be a right-brainer, have a read of this article.
Update
Here are the direct links to the relevant downloads for the English and French (or whatever) versions:
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