mozilla.org

Tired of Internet Explorer or Microsoft products in general. Maybe, you're like millions of Internet users worldwide who hate Spam and Pop-ups. If so, then clearly, it's time for a change. And Mozilla might just do the trick. It worth at least a visit to their website to learn what this open source Internet Suite can do for you.

Currently, I'm working with Mozilla 1.5 instead of the standard Windows products. Primarily, I'm using it for e-mail and browsing. The Pop-up blocker has worked seamlessly since I installed it. As well as the Spam filter software. I receive well over a hundred e-mails a day from readers, friends, colleagues, and my share of unsolicited commercial crap. Thus far, it has worked splendidly.

The Mozilla browser has a great tab browsing function allowing multiple pages to be run from tabs located around the border of the browser. Saving relevant bookmarks allows users to pull up a host of web pages with the push of one button. Instead of having a handful browsers each running separately as with Internet Explorer, these tabbed pages are easy to access.

At this point, my only concern is over the speed of the browser. It does it's job but it doesn't seem to work as smoothly as Internet Explorer. With Explorer I rarely see the image placeholder while a page is instantaneously downloading. I can't say the same for the Mozilla browser. This may be an issue with my set up or a bug they are working on, only time will tell at this point. However, as I said, it does it's job. If you are a power Internet user this is worth a test drive.

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