Comment: The browser wars part II

As with the recommendation of some US security government to trash IE and the release of Firefox 1.0pr, all the magazines and relating sites started to write about alternative browsers like crazy. Funny, how come these guys suddenly started to recommend switching? It's like they are tolerating the lameness and unstableness of IE for years, and then all of the sudden, they finally "relized" that IE sucks. Come on does it really take you years to figure that out?

I have been using Netscape since it first came out, far before IE even started it's development, and never in my life have I switched to IE. I simply can't stand that slow, unstable, ugly and confusing thing from Microsoft. They even built IE into 98 to kill Netscape. What's more, Netscape(ver. 4.x) used to be very stable on 95, but on 98 it started to crash frequently, and I strongly suspect something dirty in 98 was done to make that happen.

But while IE continued to crash into the XP era, since ver.6, Netscape (now with a mozilla counterpart and a gecko rendering engine) seldom crashed on me. Netscape 7.x, no matter on 98 or XP, never, ever crashed in my face. And since IE is integrated into windows, it might be the only browser on this planet that will open security backdoors to your OS.

^a screenshot of Netscape 7.2 with "google bar" and "multizilla" extensions installed

Ironic as it is, after Microsoft unethicaly trashed Netscape years ago, now the offspring of Netscape, Mozilla Firefox is fighting back, geting all the attention and fame.

^a screenshot of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

(I'm not going to do any deeper coverage since you can read more then you need at any news stand or book store, or farther reading here)

Anyways, for a easier life(with tabbed browsing), less ads(ad blocking), less viruses, less worms, a safer computer and much more great reasons(if you are reading this with IE that is), please click on the links on the sidebar on your right and get a mozilla based browser for free right now!

P.S. Flash player doesn't come with Firefox(but it does come with Netsape), so you should get it your self at www.macromedia.com