Mozilla : A Better Web Browser

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

I have to say -- I'm not really sure why so many people still use Internet Explorer, when there are much better options available that are not susceptible to all the IE-targeted spyware and viruses. Many web developers are switching to Mozilla, which is 100% standards compliant (IE is not). But why should you make the switch?

But most of all, Mozilla excels because it can take the annoyances out of your browsing experience by eliminating pop-up ads and giving control of your browser back to YOU. Reasons to switch:

• It allows you to stop pop-ups without 3rd-party software.
• Not vulnerable to spyware and adware programs that hijack IE.
• It allows you to save your login info, without 3rd-party software.
• It has a tabbed browsing feature, which once you get used to, you can't live without.
• It's fast.
• It's free.
• It's customizable with different themes/skins.
• It's open source, so security issues are much less of a problem than with IE, and are fixed hours after being found, not months.

For a full list, look at 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

Many of my website development colleagues have switched to this browser because it renders pages according to the standards established by the inventors of the Internet. Almost all security professionals use it exclusively.

Unfortunately, not many people in the general public are aware of the project. Try it out! It is available for every major operating system, including Macintosh and Linux.

Windows download link: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2.1/mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe

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