Firefox 1.0

It has come to my attention through my website reports that some of you are stil using Internet Explorer. Are you mad! Good god, my dear person, won’t someone think of the innocent computers, i.e., mine, that are subject to spam and hacking zombie attacks caused by people who use IE and have their computer’s taken over by dirtbags who have written viruses/worms/spyware that take advantage one, two, or a hat trick of the legions of vulnerabilities in IE. Everytime you use IE, a Teletubby dies.

So, cut it out with the IE junk. Please download and use Firefox. Firefox has been a great web browser for many, many months, and now the 1.0 release is out and is extremely stable. I swear you won’t regret switching. Maybe you don’t think IE is a piece of junk, but just wait until you’ve tried Firefox. You will quickly realize what a lame web browser IE really is. Could the IE bookmark manager possibly be any worse designed? I don’t think so.

If you use Windows, you do need to use IE for Windows Update and for a handful of other non-standard websites out there. The vast majority work as good or better in Firefox, though. And once you’ve tried tabbed browsing, you can’t go back.

One of the best things about Firefox is the number of cool extensions you can get for it. Foxytunes, for instance, is awesome. It lets you control your music player through a toolbar in the Firefox statusbar. Foxytunes works with a large number of music players on OS X, Windows, and Linux. I’ve got about another 15 cool extensions installed. One of these days, I’ll post a list.