Firefox
Everyone (especially everyone who runs MS Internet Explorer) should check out mozilla.org's new Firefox browser.
It has some nifty built-in features, but the coolest part is that you can easily pick from a large number of "extensions" to install into the browser. These allow you to customize it with just the functionality that you want.
And it's way more secure than MS IE.
And it runs on a wide range of operating systems. (Yes, it runs on MS Windows, but you can ditch MS Windows and still browse the Web with Firefox).
And it's free.
(Just an aside: Firefox is one of the browsers available on my home network, and OpenOffice is the office productivity suite that I provide for my family. I don't have Microsoft Windows installed, not on any of my home machines. I always warn my extended family never to buy any MS-Windows-based computer game for my kids, because they can't use it. :^)
posted by Unknown @ 9:48 AM
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At 2:09 PM,
Unknown said…
I just noticed another cool thing about Firefox.
When looking at any site that has an RSS feed, the browser puts an icon at the lower-right corner of the browser window. This icon allows the user to subscribe to the RSS feed. If the icon is clicked, then a window pops up to ask the user where to stick a dynamic bookmark. (A bookmark is like a "favorite" in MS IE.) This dynamic bookmark, however, appears like a folder that contains bookmark entry for each item in the RSS feed. The contents of the bookmark folder are automatically updated from time to time, and so one can, without even visiting the site, check to see what's new.
This works with Brahma Blogs because Brahma Blogs provides an RSS feed.
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