Fucking Microsoft. One of the great consequences of them winning the browser war with Netscape is that they now have no more reason to innovate. They won. They've got the market share and now browser innovation has been stagnating. That is, until Mozilla. I always had high hopes for the Mozilla project, but their offerings had been quite average and development took forever. They are finally starting to get it right! When I really started to get excited was when they announced Phoenix, which later changed to Firebird and now Firefox.

It is a browser they way a web browser should be. It is just a fast, quick browser. No email, no instant messaging, no bloated add-ons slowing it down. Just a good, fast browser with tons of WEB SURFING ONLY related features. I've been using it off and on since version 0.4, but this latest offering is just fabulous. I would encourage everyone to check it out.

A review and feature list is available here:

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/html/47/1695.html

Download the browser at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

The browser wars aren’t going to be re-ignited anytime soon. As long as Microsoft has IE integrated into its OS’s, most end users aren’t going to download a new browser. But I feel this version is really worth it.

I second that opinion. I've been using it exclusively since version 0.7. Great browser ... It blocks all popups except the ones you want, has tabbed browsing, themes, a grip of add on extensions that do anything you could ever want, plus it's much faster than IE.

-Superman-

M$ is supposedly updating IE in SP2 fro winXP. No mention of IE for W2k or any of the older 9X family (which by the way, still has a greater marketshare in the home that XP)

The new firefox/mozilla is absolutely the best web browser out there for Linux, 'nix and any version of windoze. I think there is (or will be soon) a mac version.

I loaded firefox onto my sisters old pentium 150 and it is about 20-30 percent faster than the IE it came with.

For 'nix users you can preload the firefox libraries which makes it startup real fast!

Most people are of the mind that if it aint broke, don't fix it or are just to lazy to replace the IE with FF. But heh, it's free its fast and it has quite a few features that IE doesn't. It is also more secure, and that alone is reason to "upgrade"

OG

I used the full Mozilla 1.6, and if you need it, it is great. The spam filters in email are very good, and I think the 1.5 release added in a spell checker. A very good product but, if you don't want email, html editor, chat and things like that, just the browser portion is awesome. Good security too, for you married guys, since it uses a single bookmark and history file and the cache is one directory as well. No spraying shit all over the place I.E., Mozilla keeps everything nice and orderly. Just remember to clear your download manager, no need to someone like a wife or your kids to peek in and ask about all the video files you've downloaded with names like "big tittied Brasil babes" and so on!

And, as Superman says, the popup blocker is foolproof, and for just those few sites where you want popups (banking, etc) just a mouseclick lets you add that URL to your white list of good popups.

My favorite web browser, Firefox, is now in a 1.0 Preview Release and close to being a finished product.

It has tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, a pop-up blocker, and a few hundred less vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer. All in a neat little 4.5 MB download.

http://www.mozilla.org/

One other reason to get firefox:

You can choose to disble downloading and installing software to your computer. IE makes this possible too, but it complains so much that it will disable certain "features" most people leave it on as default, rather than constantly clicking warning messages. This is the culprit that downloads and installs "a lot" of spyware to your PC (but only if your using windoze). Of course it won't stop spyware from being installed if you do it yourself by downloading and installing, on purpose. But then you won't have the excuse that the computer did it automatically, without you knowing about it.

OG