matgb | Oh my. Firefox goodness and web tricks

Old news to some, but to others, the wonders that is a decent internet browser (ie pretty much anything that isn't made by Microsoft) is still lost on them. So, reading

devils_kitchen this morning, I come across this post linking to his company's homepage. Now, I know that Microsoft's default internet browser is crappy, but do you?

Here's a good reason. Go to his homepage, and hover the mouse over the 'start' button at the top right. Now, if you're using IE, that's just a link to his home. If you're using, for example, firefox, then, using nothing more complicated than a Cascading Style Sheet (something that is simple enough for me to understand and read, even if I can't (yet) code it), you get a full drop-down site map. How cool is that? In Internet Explorer or other crappy browser platforms, you don't get any of the coolness.

So, if you're still using IE, why not get a free copy of Firefox and give money to a good cause? (NB, disclaimer here, giving the money to a good cause involves using the Google version of Firefox, which some people, notably

daweaver think is a bad plan) To get it, go here to

timworstall's site, and follow the links. Google gives money for every time a person DLs Firefox and uses is once. That's all you have to do, try it.

If you'd rather try a different browser but not trust Mr Google, then there's a decent summary of them on Too Cool for IE. OK, it's midday, there are twelve hours (and one second) left in 2005. I may do a proper 'my life' update before I leave to go out. May. Don't hold your breath ;-)

Edit: added screenshot

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Google is collecting a lot of data about individual people, and the company's bar will report even more information back to the HQ. Being based in the US, Google has no meaningful privacy policy as we Europeans understand it - for instance, there's no way for individuals to get their data out of Google's system, and Google asserts the right to sell or give this information to anyone.

I would recommend that people get Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com/) as it was intended to be. Google is paying intermediaries 80 euro cents to download their toolbar; is your privacy worth that little?

Agreed, the toolbar worries me a bit, I'm not using it. Partially because I don't want my browsing recorded, and partially also because most of the functions it gives are already in firefox. That's why I linked to the Too Cool site, which gives all the options; I'd be tempted by Opera if I wasn't already using Fx, and besides, I cut my 'net teeth on Netscape, IE always annoyed me.

I am using gmail, but I'm also keeping my other email addresses and my work address, I've balanced out the concerns over the benefits.

I'm partially tempted to DL the toolbar from Tim, use it once, then destroy it, just to get them to give away money for nothing. But I'm a little bothered about legacies and I'm not that good a techie; I'll likely do it on the old PC when I next boot it up to transfer files.

I liked your Correspondents predict thing; I was cooking through it at lunchtime, I'll listen again tomorrow I think.

Oh my. Firefox goodness and web tricks

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