For a long while, I swore by Microsoft. I got my baptism in surfing with Internet Explorer 6. Even though friends kept trying to 'convert' me to open source software, I was reluctant to change, Old habits die hard. I did a little experimenting and went through the paces, IE 6.5, Opera, IE 7, IE 7 pro, in quick succession but all had something missing - something intangible.
IE 7 pro has its good points. Like a mini download manager, crash recovery window to take you back to the pages you surfed last in case of a system crash, numerous plugins that that help you. Was it my imagination? Or was there something still missing? Then I decided to try Mozilla Firefox 3. Things have changed drastically since. Firefox 3 has all the good things of IE 7 pro and then more. There are loads of skins to choose from. There are addons and scripts that you can run. My favourite addons are Cooliris which allows you to preview a page by clicking on a blue icon near the link to the page. If for instance, you google for something, without opening any of the links, you can preview the pages. No opening new pages or tabs. Another interesting addons is the videoembed (FLV player) that enables downloading of youtube movies. My favourite is Fire.fm Fire.fm streams non stop music. Just type in an artist, genre or tag and listen away. Right now, I am listening to "King of the Road" - Glen Miller and I feel I am the king of all surfers Happy surfing, then -- With best wishes and regards, Tony ============================ Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470 148 M: +91 9975162897 E: tonydesa at gmail dot com ----------------------------------------------------------- Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau ================================
