Do you hate spyware? I know I do. I have far fewer problems on the Mac, but use a PC from time to time, like when my hard drive dies…ho hum… At such times, I use Firefox. Many of you already use it, indeed, I was alerted to it by my good friend Geoff, who actually alerts me to just about anything of any value on a PC.
Firefox is much more spyware-resistant than IE. I won’t point out the tools, but if you really want to know, I’m sure Geoff can point to some cool links for you to help remove the scum from your machine.
I also like Firefox because it offers tabbed browsing without resorting to plug-ins. And if you like extensibility, Firefox again delivers the goods.
If you read newsfeeds or blogs through RSS, then Firefox gives you an RSS reader built right into the browser.
Enough advertising. Try it out. It’s not perfect, I’m sure there are still some things that IE does better, but I wouldn’t use IE on the PC anymore unless I had a gun to my head.
A reader wrote in to tell me that he couldn’t read my archives with Firefox because it didn’t interpret the HTML content of the text file format that archives are stored in, but apparently, he reports this has now been fxed.
Of course, I use a Mac, which has Safari pre-installed. The only thing I miss is the warning dialogue that Firefox gives when you attempt to close a window with multiple tabs in it.
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