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Mozilla 1.4 : Finally worth the move
I dislike Microsoft and I dislike IE but there is nothing really better.
Opera is nice, cool, swift and quick, and yet it's.... somehow 'ubrowser-like'. You toy with it and it's quick and sleek, but it seems more like some project one would build utilzing the IE engine, rather a stand-alone browser.
I've been downloading and testing Mozilla ever since the 0.7 version and always hoped "this would be the one" to make me move.
From version 0.9 I already moved my e-mail account to the new mail manager, from my old 4.7, and I still haven't got a single worm or virus from e-mail. (not having silly friends with your e-mail in their address book also helps, though I did recieve some rare letters with VBS files, that DID NOT open automatically, whcih I simply deleted.)
Somehow, when I downloaded 1.4 today, and read about people saying it's worth the move, I felt like smircking. "Yeah that's what I always like to think, and then I go back to IE".
But somehow, this release feels like a stable, quick and finished browser.
It doesn't hog my memory. It is fast and error free on my pages. It doesn't try to circumvent my fire-wall and ad-blocker and insists on loading active-x (flash) ads behind my back. It doesn't alert me a THOUSAND times, that the active-x component I told it not to run, will probably ruin my whole browsing experience, like IE used to do.
It just works. With hebrew and with russian.
It loads many complex pages much quicker than IE.
Since it isn't so sorrowly integrated into my Windows, it makes no attempts to, for what ever reasons, read my harddisks at random places at random intervals, while failing to process a draw window command.
Finally, I feel at home with Mozilla 1.4.
Why don't you to?
Opera is nice, cool, swift and quick, and yet it's.... somehow 'ubrowser-like'. You toy with it and it's quick and sleek, but it seems more like some project one would build utilzing the IE engine, rather a stand-alone browser.
I've been downloading and testing Mozilla ever since the 0.7 version and always hoped "this would be the one" to make me move.
From version 0.9 I already moved my e-mail account to the new mail manager, from my old 4.7, and I still haven't got a single worm or virus from e-mail. (not having silly friends with your e-mail in their address book also helps, though I did recieve some rare letters with VBS files, that DID NOT open automatically, whcih I simply deleted.)
Somehow, when I downloaded 1.4 today, and read about people saying it's worth the move, I felt like smircking. "Yeah that's what I always like to think, and then I go back to IE".
But somehow, this release feels like a stable, quick and finished browser.
It doesn't hog my memory. It is fast and error free on my pages. It doesn't try to circumvent my fire-wall and ad-blocker and insists on loading active-x (flash) ads behind my back. It doesn't alert me a THOUSAND times, that the active-x component I told it not to run, will probably ruin my whole browsing experience, like IE used to do.
It just works. With hebrew and with russian.
It loads many complex pages much quicker than IE.
Since it isn't so sorrowly integrated into my Windows, it makes no attempts to, for what ever reasons, read my harddisks at random places at random intervals, while failing to process a draw window command.
Finally, I feel at home with Mozilla 1.4.
Why don't you to?
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