Web Browsers

I just tried viewing this blog on Internet Explorer, and it didn't exactly turn out the way I expected. Not that surprising, since I designed the layout and picked the fonts/colours using Firefox.

If you're still using IE, I have one question for you: How does it feel like to be using the dinosaur of browsers at this time and age? Just like using that ancient squat toilet huh?

Firefox is absolutely cool, as everyone should know by now. It's not only fast, but more secure as well (or so we're told). But it's not for the less savvy or the lazy, because the downloaded package is really basic, and you'll have to look for the extensions and plugins to add yourself.

If that's the case for you, you can try Maxthon. Maxthon is IE under cover, but with all the cool features you find in just about every browser except IE itself. Just install and enjoy, simple as that. The caveat is that it is as unsecure as IE, not that this matters to everyone of course. But it should.

And while I'm at it, you should ditch Outlook and try Thunderbird too.

Both Firefox (with the right extensions) and Maxthon contain features like tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, drag-and-drop links, minimize to system-tray, auto-hide favourites sidebar, and so on. To me, mouse gestures is the single coolest and greatest thing to happen to browsers. Together with drag-and-drop links, they make for super-fast surfing.

There are other good browsers, of course, like Opera. But Opera is ad-supported the last I check, unless you pay (and who in the world pays for web browsers?). And I'm only talking about the Windoze world here.

Try them. And trust me, once you get the hang of it, you'll never, ever go back to IE ever again. ;)