Try Firefox

Some of you may remember that damn annoying spyware called "Cool Web Search", if you had it, you know how much pain in the ass it is (redirecting your homepage, trying to connect to internet if PC was disconnected, and generally slowing entire system down). I tried a whole dozen methods of removing it but to no avail because each time i started Internet explorer i would get it again. Then i remembered an article in one PC magazine, about firefox, the new browser (for that time) that is far more secure than internet explorer. I immediately installed it.. and kept using it ever since :)

What's so special about firefox you might ask. Why a computer giant like microsoft can't make their own web browser (internet explorer) more secure than some open source one (firefox)? Ever heard of ActiveX? Thats a Microsoft invented technology which allows for integration of media player and internet explorer, it also base for their windows update and a number of other things. The thing with this technology is that it's full of security holes and that's what makes IE and Media Player so vulnerable. Firefox on the other hand has no support for activeX and consequently it doesn't share it's vulnerabilities.
But it goes beyond that. Firefox was among first browsers with integrated popup blocker and support tabbed browsing. From the technical side it is based on java script which in turn makes it run somewhat slower. Some other advantages of firefox?

• Open source
• Supports vast number of internet standards (probably will be first one to support CSS3)
• Highly extendable (they are made in javascript so it's easy to write them resulting in a great number of add-ons available)
  
• Highly portable (you can run firefox on virtually every modern OS)
• Automatic plugin search
• It is really easy to optimize your website for it because of it's open nature
  

Disadvantages? Well there are some:

• Slower speed
• Memory allocation problems (mostly fixed now, but in the past they were really unpleasant)

Convinced? Give it a try:
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