random computer stuff

[dchenes]

Since Lorac very graciously gave me a gmail account, and since in my "starving grad student" disguise I never upgraded to Panther, I discovered that Safari 1.0 and Gmail don't get along. Thus commenced the (short) search for a new browser.

I would've gone back to Netscape, but I've fallen prey to the opinion that Netscape is done, and I got rid of the copy I had. IE is Right Out, if for no other reason than because I really don't like browsers without popup blockers. It gave me fits last semester when I was doing a lot of web-based research in the grad lab and had to deal with six or seven popups per page. If I wanted to spend the money and upgrade to Panther, I would go to whatever the current version of Safari is, but (a) I'm still not convinced I won't be broke before Christmas and (b) I'm running out of time to do lengthy computer-related maintenance stuff, and backing up my entire computer before installing Panther is something I don't have time for.

So, that left me with Gmail's suggestion, which is Firefox. My only complaints about Firefox so far are that it got confused when I first installed it and I had to restart the computer in order to unconfuse it, and that it doesn't seem to want to import bookmarks from Safari, so I had to put them all in manually (fortunately I don't have huge numbers of bookmarks).

In any case, whoever invented the Google toolbar for web browsers should be sainted.

Comments

[jost.livejournal.com]

Firefox is the only browser I've used for over a year now. It's like butta.

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

I like Mozilla Myself, but then I use the integrated mail with significant regularity.

The important thing to remember is to make ure you check out all the plugins that your browser supports.

And tabbed browsing. Opera introduced it, but I prefer Mozilla's implementation.

And don't forget to check out the alternate browser themes. Those are fun too. :)

[lorac.livejournal.com]

William got me converted to Mozilla - it's definitely nice to not have to deal with all the popups!

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

Firefox is worth the hassle. Faster than Nerfscape, less disgusting than Infect Exploder.
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