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Posted by D. Sherman on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 22:48:55 :
In Reply to: Firefox posted by Jerry in Idaho on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 21:44:42 :
I also use it 99% of the time. The only thing I use IE for is Windows updates and McAfee free virus scan, since those two sites require it. Otherwise, Firefox is superior in every way. It's faster, or at least smarter at putting the important stuff on the screen first, it's far less of a hog of system resources, and it's less likely to have security holes that crooks can exploit. I run two add-ons, "Adblock" which blocks advertising (whatever ad sites I choose to block) and "Torbutton" which is an easy way to turn TOR on and off. TOR is a program that anonymizes your IP address so the site you're browsing doesn't know who you are. TOR slows the connection considerably, so Torbutton is handy for turning it on and off as needed. I also like the spell-checker that's built in to Firefox. Lastly, Firefox works the same way on new Windows machines (XP, 2K, etc), old Windows machines (95, 98, ME), Mac, and Linux, which means that once you're used to it, it's easy to browse on somebody else's computer even if it has a different operating system.
I also agree with those who like Thunderbird for a mail reader. It's quite a bit different from MS mail (more like the old Netscape mail), but it's stable, has several neat features, and again isn't as susceptible to malicious hacking.