Let's stick it to Bill Gates

I've decided to try and live my on-line life free from Microsoft's ubiquitous (and flawed) Internet Explorer just to see how it goes. There are safer and better browsers out there, all free to use. So we can now surf with less risk from adware/scumware/malware/pop-ups and all the other horrors that come with IE while simultaneously chipping away at the insidious Microsoft domination of how we access the internet.

I've been checking out Netscape 7.2 and the new Mozilla Firefox instead. Both have enhanced security features (so I'm told, anyway) and have a number of funky things that Microsoft's option does not provide. Best of all is the "tabbing" feature present on both, which means you can access a number of different websites within one browser window rather than having four or five different sessions of IE open. It takes a bit of re-adjustment, but it's a great (and very simple) idea. Firefox looks and feels much like IE, automatically imports your "favourites" across for you, has a built in Google search bar and has been developed by a non-profit organisation. Currently, Microsoft's default browser is used by 93% of the world's internet surfers, which is just staggering. Firefox hope to claw 10% back by the end of next year. Why not help them?

Firefox 1.0 can be downloaded here.
Netscape 7.2 can be downloaded here.