Thursday, October 26, 2006

Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7

OK, new major web browsers back-to-back launch. Of course, comparisons are in order. On the surface, both look attractive. I like IE7's thumbnail preview of open tabs better than Firefox's text list. On the other hand, Firefox's Undo Close Tab and Session Restore have saved me a lot of grief already. On the security side, Firefox wins hands down. Just refusing ActiveX is one big security boost. Both have anti-phishing but only time will tell which is doing a better job over the other.
Who needs Internet Explorer 7? Firefox 2.0 is officially out and I'm already using it but I'm still installing IE7. Internet Explorer has got too many hooks within Windows XP that it's impossible to uninstall it without breaking something. Even if I'm not using IE for web surfing, XP still needs it. Besides, there are web sites that simply will not work with other browsers. Might as well update IE to version 7 to make it more secure though it's obviously not totally secure.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 will be out soon. I'm using Release Candidate 3 and it looks good. I like the close button on each tab. I'm not timing it but it feels just as fast as version 1.5. What's very interesting is Undo Close Tab. It's found by right-clicking on the tabs bar. Why? Because it's a time saver compared to hunting for a web site from the history list. It's also useful because of my mouse. Huh? What's a mouse got to do with browser history? My cordless optical mouse has been acting up lately. It's sometimes doing a double-click in place of a single click. So instead of just closing one tab, it closes two. Instead of closing one window, it closes two. Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!!! While you're at it, why don't you shut down Windows too? Wait, don't do that!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Alright, already! Everyone and his neighbor and their pets have blogs and I have been intending to do this for a long time so no more excuses! So there. Now what do I put in here?