You know how it is when you get something new that you're not sure you need, but then you realize how awesome it is and wonder how you got along without it? Like when they used to eat bread in hunks, but then somebody started slicing it, leading directly to the Earl of Sandwich and thence to modern civilization as we know it?
FireFox is kinda like that. It's a cool, sleek, browser that replaces the clunky, old Internet Explorer that you're currently using. It's quick and easy to install, fast and easy to use, and takes no relearning to get started. You can use it just like IE, but it has some cool little features that really grow on you. For instance, pressing Ctrl while you click on a link opens the new page in a separate tab inside the FireFox window, so if you have 10 pages open they don't cover your taskbar but sit politely in the FireFox window where you can switch between them or close them at will.
Also, for if you're getting into blogs and blogging, you'll love its built-in RSS reader. What this capability means is that on any RSS-enabled web page (like most blogs including this one, as well as FoxNews.Com, ESPN.Com and many other sites featuring constantly-added articles and content), you can simply click the small orange button that appears at the bottom of the browser and "subscribe" to the RSS feed. The feed is saved as a bookmark folder in FireFox, with a bookmark for each of the currently available articles. When the browser restarts it then refreshes the feeds to which you have subscribed, and you can see at a glance what is new with all of your favorite sites without having to visit them each individually or comb through the stories on the site for things that interest you.
So hey, it's cool and free--sheck it out!
FireFox: Rediscover the Web
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2 comments:
Huevo,
this is a cool article about a cool program, I hope to "sheck it out" for myself someday. So is this a complete internet program, like explorer and aol? If so, are there more of these? I had no idea, schweet!!
The Snow-Man
Yeah, it's a standalone program, and it does everything Explorer does, as far as I know. When you install it you still have Explorer, so if you want to go back it's no problem. Mozilla's other main program is ThunderBird, which is an email program. You can get to it from the bottom of that same page.
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