atw: Re: OT: Explorer and Firefox

Well Sonja (McS) and Michael (L),

I must say that I like and use both Opera and FireFox.

Having both around uses a fraction of the space of the Internet Exploder
Web Bruiser and using either will give you much greater happiness in your
Web browsing experience than wither the Exploder or AOL's Netscrape.

You will also remain much safer from rampant cookies and spyware than
would otherwise be the case.

FireFox is noticeably more tolerant of MS-proprietary sites than Opera
but the multi-tab interface in Opera is just so nice to use, as is the Opera
F12 key launched Quick Preferences floating menu that enables you to
block or accept pop-ups and cookies on a page by page basis and fool
Web site browser sniffers by masquerading as other browsers.

(Oh and Opera also lets you use sites as Text Only on a tab / page by page
basis.  Fabulous for testing disability compliance for the visually impaired -
do ALL the graphics have embedded text tag captions - and makes viewing
one's Webmail mind bogglingly fast!)

Sites that go all messy or show me silly browser "upgrade"  notices when I
tell them that Opera is Opera behave perfectly when I go back in with my
MSIE 6 hat on.  He-he!  Good fun for Westpac Internet banking and so
much faster and more secure (less completely insecure?) than MSIE.

Plus Opera's extensive preferences and security goodies are a joy to behold.

So yes, FireFox is my secondary browser but Opera is my primary.

MSIE is my tertiary / last resort browser, only kept around for absolute
dogs of uncooperative proprietary sites.  Then flush the cookies, files and
history from the control panel > Internet options dialog later.

Of course, whatever you use, you still need a decent firewall and Sygate
Personal is the one that I most wholeheartedly recommend for personal use.
They have a pay to use product with even greater capabilities and options
for business  use.

The lovely thing about Opera is that it will install in otherwise locked down
"Standard Desktop" environments by choosing a folder outside of the
program files one to install.  But don't tell anyone okay ;-)

Some of the "skins" on Opera are also a joy to behold.

The big difference is that there a lot of third party add-ons being built
for FireFox by the open source community, which you need to attach
later, whereas Opera has much more built in.

Either way, your whole Web experience will change, even giving your
dialup connection (if you still have one) a new lease of life.

Opera or FireFox turn WWW back into meaning the Worldwide Web
instead of what it became under Exploder and Netscrape bloatware
of recent times - the Worldwide Wait.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas

At 10:41 29/4/2005, you wrote:
>Sonja McShane:
>
> > I've ignored all
> > Firefox info on this list before (has there been any?!?!). Does anyone
> > else use it/recommend it?
>
>I use it, and recommend it, for several reasons:
>
>It's cheaper.
>It's more reliable.
>It's standards-compliant.
>It's more efficient.
>It's not Microsoft (which is another way of saying "all of the above").
>
>I'm aware of the strong support for Opera, but the fact that Firefox is
>Mozilla means it has a certain pedigree -- a history of development -- that
>has obvious consequences.
>
>
>Michael Lewis
>-------------------
>Brandle Pty Limited
>Sydney, Australia
>-------------------

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