Why people still use Internet Explorer is perplexing to me.
Why?
Bugs, pop-ups, failure to adhere to the Web Consortium standards,
and closed source bother me the most.
What bugs? http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-22.html
Internet Explorer == Microsoft Product,
Microsoft Product == Buggy & Insecure,
Buggy & Insecure == Poorly written.
Over 80% of visiting traffic to this site has been hits from Internet Explorer. Just like it's time to select your default Google language as hacker, you should not browse the internet with Internet Explorer. And unless you want to shell out forty dollars for Opera, download Mozilla. Opera may be the fastest browser, but in addition to having to pay for it, it still isn't open-source.
Okay, so for everyone who cannot figure out the Mozilla.org website, there are two versions of Mozilla. There is the suite, which is known as Mozilla 1.5, and there is Firebird 0.7. Mozilla 1.5, an 11.9 megabyte download, is my preference for now since it comes with an e-mail client, IRC, and has more options and features. Firebird is slightly faster and significantly smaller, since it is a stand-alone browser. Firebird is also probably where the future of Mozilla is headed. Both are free and open source. Anyone that pays for one of these hot-selling pop-up advertisement blockers is a dumbass in my book when Mozilla does it all automatically for free.
I have periodically used Mozilla since I first experienced using it in Red Hat Linux 7.2 which was before it had reached version 1.0. It became my primary browser since the release of 1.3, and I would NEVER go back. Oh, and stop using Microsoft's Outlook or Outlook Express. They're total crap too. Use Mozilla e-mail built into Mozilla 1.5 or Thunderbird, which works alongside Firebird, for e-mail.
One thing I wish Mozilla would do, though, is display image ALT text in a tooltip on mouseover. Apparently it is not the correct implementation for ALT text use, but it has become a standard for many browsers to display such text on mouseover. The Mozilla creators oppose this, since it is apparently poor HTML style and the TITLE tag should be used instead, but it would be nice if at least there was an option to see ALT text on mouseover if there is no TITLE tag. Either way, I have gone through the pages on this site and added TITLE tags to images for your reading enjoyment.
Oh, and because I'm so cool, I got an 'A' on my short "Informative" 1302 Thinking & Writing class essay about what our future might hold. I wrote about Mozilla, but because the paper was intended for the technologically challenged, the paper is rather "dumbed-down." If you can't understand it, well, then, you're just stupid.
Oh, and perhaps I'm somewhat hypocritical for writing the paper in Microsoft Word instead of OpenOffice.org's word processor. I'm still adjusting to some of the differences, but I am fond of the free and open-source office suite.
Hell yes to the open source movement!
More on Mozilla: The paper. You might learn something..