Here Comes the Fox

Ladies and gentlemen, at 1am Pacific Daylight Time, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 will be released into the wild. Yes, it’s been more than a year and a half of development, two name changes, and millions of downloads.

If you haven’t considered dumping IE due to all the exploits and security issues, tomorrow is the time. Besides it’s built-in pop-up blocking and tabbed-browsing (a new way to surf the web), Firefox offers a secure way to surf the waves of the Web. Also, live bookmarks allow you to easily see if/when sites are updated. Themes and extensions help you surf the web the way you want to.

Your experience will almost assuredly be better with Firefox.

Give it a go, it’s donationware, so if you feel the need to support them, please do. And, coming soon, get rid of Outlook Express: use Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (coming later this month, g-d willing).

(Note: For those of you that don’t know, the Mozilla Suite is what Netscape is built on. Firefox is a completely separate program which uses the same foundation for better viewing of web pages.)