Topic: My vote.....
Mozilla new free browser is a formidable contender for internet explorer.....I never thought I would ever switch any other browser but Mozilla changed all that....Have been using it for more than 3 months now...I am all impressed and swithed for good....
It has many neat feautures....My fav is password feature which is truly smart....if you are like me who does most of the chores on the net like paying bills, online subscriptions to several magazine etc. then you know the nightmare of maintaining user name and password combo.....
Mozilla simplifies it by offering to remember it for you....so what even internet explorer let's you do that . But, Mozialla is smart by offering you the level of granularity one needs...You can set a master password which you enter once in the beginning and then on all previously saved user name and passwords are plugged in for you....If you do not need that level of protection then you can bypass master password too like the internet explorer does but that's risky should your laptop get into wrong hands...
Then the speed...I can say that Mozilla beats IE handsdown in downloads....
Books marks can be easily imported from IE....
You should be able to visit at least 90% of your fav sites without any problem but there are some web site that use MS technology such controls etc and the companies that provide such third party software may not have Mozilla compatibles yet but that should change in years to come...For all such sites, goold IE exists....
Another area that could be problematic is Indian fonts....some how Mozilla has not been very predictable with Kannada fonts...My home laptop version garbles them but fresh install that I did on work laptop has no problems....So it could be a problem when you have to read news papers etc in your native Indian language. But, many Indidian sites have been putting prominently that they are Mozilla compatible.
All in a all, great to see MS getting some competition.....
Way to go Mozilla.....
Cheers!
Posted by Mahesh
at 7:05 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, 26 February 2005 7:24 PM EST