I’ve been using Mozilla for about three years now. I’ve come to the point where I won’t use Internet Exploder unless I absolutely have to. I’ve got Mozilla installed on every machine I use, including my work machine. What attracted me to try Mozilla was browser tabs, which allow you to have multiple websites open without having to open a seperate window for each page, you put them in seperate tabs instead. I also liked the built in popup blocker. Nothing is more annoying that mistyping a URL and getting a porn site with 20 million pop-ups that each spawn 20 million of their own pop-ups. I haven’t had a single unwanted pop-up since I started using Mozilla.
I also like that you can easily install plugins. I especially like Adblock. It allows you to block images based on their location, and with wildcards. For instance, I have a wildcard that looks like this: */ads/* Any image located at any website with “/ads/” anywhere in the URL gets automatically blocked. A similar, and complimentary plugin I like is called bannerblind. It allows you to block images based on their size. Most ad banners are similar sizes, making it easy to make them randomly selectable when your browser opens a page, so if you know the size of the image in pixels, you can have it blocked.
Open-source is great stuff. Microsoft may never implement some of these features into IE, but Mozilla doesn’t have some big company beurocracy to answer to.
This is the dorky-est post ever. But I read it, and enjoyed it fully. Thanks!
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