Internet hygiene
Internet Explorer is too dangerous to keep using. And that was based on last week’s vulnerability. This week’s is a new scheme to capture passwords to banking sites.
Firefox is up to release 0.9.1… and with popup blocking, selective image blocking, tabbed browsing and more, your web browsing will suck much less.
Yeah, I’ve been harping on this lately. But so long as my web log continues to show a majority of people using Internet Explorer, I’ll continue to consider harping on it to be important.
Hi, Zed...just wanted to put in a plug for Opera as another alternative to Internet Exploder. If you like tabbed browsing with Firefox, you'll probably love Opera's MDI mode.
Posted by Mike Jones on June 30 2004 14:01
Yeah, I like Opera, too -- plugged it in my previous IE bashing. Its cookie management is much nicer; its tab management is better than Firefox's is without the Tabbrowser Extension (which doesn't work with Firefox .9 yet); my unbenchmarked impression is that it displays pages faster.
But I really miss Firefox's image blocking when I use Opera, and right now I don't want to spend the $15 to upgrade my registration for an ad-free Opera. I probably will at some point.
Posted by Zed on July 1 2004 09:00
hi,
I have moved away from IE to Firefox thru advices like yours. I am using MT (TypePad hosted version) and would like to know how you can check the browser version of your reader on your weblog?
Thanks,
Zapa
Posted by zapa on July 2 2004 18:53
Hi Zapa,
You'll have to get the details from your web host. They have webserver logs that have an entry for every request to their webserver, including how the client making the request identified itself. Whether your host keeps the logs or makes them available to their users, I have no idea.
Good luck with it.
Zed
Posted by Zed on July 2 2004 19:06
from slashdot.com:
MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE
Mozilla
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 05, @11:38AM
from the not-really-that-shocking dept.
brightertimes writes "That's right folks, Slate (Microsoft's on-line magazine) recently printed an article enitled "Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer.""
Posted by durden on July 5 2004 21:25
=v= Gotta love that title. "Back?" Mozilla's been vastly superior to IE for years. It's long been the most standards-compliant browser available (and that includes the standards concocted by Microsoft-packed standards committees for the apparent purpose of giving IE an edge).
Posted by Jym on July 6 2004 07:05