Tue 30 Oct 2007 @05:05
I’ve written before that I like using the Mozilla Firefox browser instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. [I would say that all the cool kids are using it but, while that may well be true, I have never been one of the cool kids and I don't think we should do something just because they do anyway. In fact, that endorsement is usually reason enough for me not to do it. But I digress... to excess.] Web sites don’t always display the same way in Firefox as they do in IE. Sometimes this is just poor design, sometimes it’s intentional, sometimes it’s so the site can use a non-standard feature of IE. [None of those reasons are mutually exclusive.]
There are a few sites I visit on a fairly regular basis that never display correctly in Firefox. Depending on how distorted they are or which features I’m trying to access I either put up with the distortion or I acquiesce and use IE. Until now, that is.
One of the cool things about Firefox is the wide variety of add-ons available — way more than I would ever want or need, which means there’s probably something for just about everyone. And one of the add-ons I just learned about is called IE Tab. This adds a button to my toolbar that, when clicked, reloads the page just as if I were looking at it in IE. I tried it on a couple of the sites I visit often and it worked like a charm.
This isn’t earth-shattering or life-changing, [well, I think my online life is a little better with this tool] but tools like this are why all the cool kids want to use Firefox. And all us geeks too….
October 31st, 2007 at 06:37
hhhmmm, i may need to become a cool kid.
In my book, you’ve always been a cool kid. ~Tim
October 31st, 2007 at 17:45
A lot of people I know use Firefox and I’ve tried it but I just dont’ see the difference between the two, now that IE 7.0 has the tabs, too. I probably just don’t know enough about the technology.
IE has gotten better by incorporating some of the features that other browsers like Firefox have had for a long time — tabs, pop-up blocker, etc. Firefox usually runs quicker, but you might not notice the difference on a new machine with a fast connection. I think Firefox still has better security and with all the plugins I think it’s more customizable. ~Tim
November 1st, 2007 at 17:21
Oh. I am firefox all the way baby. See, all the cool little geeky girls ARE using it. Plus, you can get a wicked cool nightmare before christmas theme for halloween!
Try that in IE! 
lol!!
–snow
You are the coolest of cool little geeky girls! ~Tim
November 1st, 2007 at 19:15
The REALLY cool kids use Opera … put both IE and Firefox together and Opera still kicks their combined asses. Opera had tabbed browsing at the turn of the century
Yeah, I used Opera for a couple years [back when you had to pay for it!] but I haven’t looked at it recently. ~Tim
November 3rd, 2007 at 22:32
I use Firefox. The reason I use Firefox is it blocks pop ups and it’s easy to destroy cookies, unlike Internet Exploder.
Recent version of IE have added a pop up blocker. I haven’t checked whether they have made it any easier to control cookies. Still, Microsoft is getting to the party rather late on most of these features and I still like every other browser I’ve tried more than I like IE. ~Tim