A quick PSA

[ashinae]

Like several others, it would seem, I am now using Mozilla Firefox, and I think I shall not look back. It's a nice, clean interface, safer than IE, and I am in love with its bookmark system, whee.

For all relevant info on the current Massive Microsoft Security Issue, check out elke_tanzer's post here (also a quick link to some Bush administration idiocy regarding condoms and AIDS and... oh, just check that one out too, if you haven't seen it. *shakes head*).

Anyway, yes. Check that out. Protect yourself. I must now catch up on my flist and then start work on my portfolio site for school. Final assignment. Yay.

Comments

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Whee! I resisted using Firefox until about a month ago, when the latest outbreak of viruses worried me. My virus software caught a trojan virus I got through a web site, and that was quite a wake up call.

And it's very easy to customize firefox to block pop ups except those you need. And the download manager thingy is great. And....

Yeah, I'm a crazed convert.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I just adore FireFox now. My only complaint is that it doesn't seem to be fully on top of all the CSS stylings that one can do, that show up in IE. You have to be stricter with your code too, but these are only the complaints of a web designer and not a web user. As a user, I am MORE than happy. Yay bookmarks! Yay pop up blocker! Yay download manager! :)

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

According to my boyfriend, who has been using the Mozilla products since Netscape 4.7 [he never used IE], the trouble with Mozilla is that it is wholly compliant with the W3 guidelines.

MSIE has style options supported by no other browser [or at least it did back in the olden days, in 2002, when I was still a web developer]. Mozilla is strict.

The only thing I'm having trouble with is that its interpretation of styles is far smaller than IE, and most people design for IE, so all the text is fricking tiny. It's easy to change the size of the font, luckily.

I love the download manager. It is helpful without being intrusive, like a good waiter. *g*

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

I forget what originally brough Firefox to my attention, but once I tried it, I was sold. It completely blocks pop-ups, but you can allow them for individual sites if needed, and you can block images by location, like ad servers.

I had gotten some viruses simply by visiting web pages by something that was part of the html code that launched a vbscript "onload", so it runs in the background automatically.. and it also attached the virus code to every html file on my computer which I had to go in and edit out. Firefox blocks these kind of things.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

With the latest outbreak of viruses that one can get through just Internet Explorer, I was totally sold on going to Firefox. It rocks my socks. Hee, I rhyme. Er. Sorry, I'm still tired. *G* I am trying to walk away from Microsoft software and hardware as much as possible. It's just SAFER, you know?