[thelist] RE: switch from IE to Firefox?

[Alan McCoy]

You won't go back to IE...seriously.

I made the switch over a month and a half ago and it's been great! 
Tabbed browsing is wonderful and the available extensions really make 
browsing a productive experience.

 From the web dev point of view, it really makes sense to switch. For 
one, there are some great extensions for FF that can really streamline 
your workflow. (specifically, the DOM Inspector, Web Developer, and the 
various cookie manager extensions)

But the big reason for me is that FF's standards compliance make it 
soooo much easier to develop CSS and code for FF and then test on IE 
than it is to build first for IE then test on FF (unless you're doing 
IE-specific stuff like ActiveX). You'll find that you'll have fewer 
adjustments that need to be made to get things to work in IE if you 
start with Firefox.

Of course, once you've officially made the switch to Firefox, you'll 
then want to replace Outlook/OE with Thunderbird! (made that switch also 
about a month ago) :-)

Alan

ANDREA STREIGHT wrote:

>I'm considering the experiment of switching from Internet Explorer to 
>Firefox by Mozilla.
>
>Before I download this free browser, are there any comments, warnings, 
>advice I should heed?
>
>Any input appreciated.
>
>I tried Netscape Navigator for a few minutes and disliked it. It was 
>packaged with my computer, along with other useless items like AOL and Adobe 
>Acrobat.
>
>
>Steven Streight
>Web Usability Analyst/Web Artist
>astreight at msn.com
>vaspersthegrate at yahoo.com
>www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com
>www.streightsite.blogspot.com
>www.arttestexplosion.blogspot.com 
>  
>


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Alan McCoy <a.r.mccoy at larc.nasa.gov>
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