For those who are hip to the best web browser on the planet, a new version has been released. Here's a short list of what's new.
If you haven't tried Mozilla, and are still suffering with Internet Exploder, have a read through this list of unique features. Did I mention that it renders pages faster?
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I couldn't sleep....
You know what they say, if you can't sleep, journal. ;)
jamesj- JID: hystrix@jabber.g4g.org
So...
You're saying that writing puts you to sleep?
I like that: "Suffering" with Internet Explorer? Nahh... I'm not suffering, give me a basis to compare and I might change my mind however. :D
Well...
I suppose suffering might have been severe. But some features that I like for users I have supported, is pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, searching quickly within a page just by typing / and some letters. While it probably loads slower than IE (because IE is pretty much already loaded with the windows OS) it renders pages faster.
Its also nice doing secure transactions in a browser that doesn't have massive security holes that you have to patch weekly. :P Or for that matter, posting anything through a closed source application from a company with }:) intentions. j/k Although I am really happy they google didn't allow M$ to buy them.
On the more serious side, the Mozilla community has been quick in responding to bug fixes and feature additions. The Mozilla Mail client for instance is a pretty slick IMAP client with Junk mail controls based on Beysian filtering. I have many a novice computer user doing quite well with Mozilla mail.
jamesj- JID: hystrix@jabber.g4g.org
A'ight
Mozilla's a'ight, I guess. Need some time to compare it to Safari.
Safari's Cool
I was actually going to mention it in the original post. But Safari is on the cool list. Its actually based on KHTML which is a browser engine designed by the KDE team for Linux's Konqueror file and web browser.
I was pleased when MS decided to drop IE support for the Mac. Actually I don't care what browser people use, as long as its standards compliant, and that there is more than just one in use. If the world only used IE, then the definition of a "web page" changes to code that can execute on a single platform. Sort of defeats the cross platform open nature of the Internet.
jamesj- JID: hystrix@jabber.g4g.org
Interoperability
Seems lost on MS. Actually, to a point it is. Their networking interoperability stole the Novell server market in the 90's since they were cheaper and associated hardware was cheaper as well. If they think it serves their interest, they are interoperable - or create some devilish spawn that looks like, but is not completely what they imitate (JAVA anyone?) in an effort to be interoperable AND limit interoperability at the same time. Very odd...
Anyways, I may check it out when I have time - which I don't at the moment. :(