Oct 18, 2005 08:30 PM
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(Updated Oct 18, 2005 09:12 PM)
I hate IE. I just hate it. Use it for a few days, and u have spyware and trojans enjoying a picnic on your pc.
The good thing is that we have alternatives, alternatives in the form of Mozilla Firefox and Opera. These are simply great and u dont need to be an IE user to use them. They are offered for free on their respective websites. Popups are easily blocked by both, which reduces the time taken for a page to load especially on dial up connections.
Opera offers u tabbed browsing by default, that being an easy to reach option in Firefox, but this isnt exactly a con, is it? Opera offers u the option of using mouse gestures if u use them for the first time, and it even has voice options. That is a 11mb file which u will have to download. Once u open opera, u will notice the side bar with the commonly used buttons. But u can have it removed. One small problem I experienced with opera was that download accelerator wudnt integrate easily with it. But it did with firefox. Again not a very bad con. Opera has an inbuilt download manager which can resume downloads once they are broken, unlike firefox. But then u can use DAP with firefox.
Both are excellent browsers with a lot of features, like tabbed browsing, popup blocking and much more. And easily customisable with themes, cool!
