Well, I would recommend
Mozilla 1.4 for the following reasons:
1. It's free, with no ads (unlike Opera).
2. It is faster than IE (in my opinion), and suffers less crashes. Also, it doesn't suffer from MS Updates!
3. It has a built in Pop Up Stopper, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, Mail Client, HTML Editor, Form Filler, and may other features, which you have to use third party programs for in IE.
4. You can use Tabbed Browsing, and (with the relevant plug-in), Mouse Gestures, if you wish to.
5. You can have fun trying out the hundreds of add-ons / extensions / plug-ins available, if you like tinkering.
6. If you c**k it up, you can easily re-install it without losing any of your settings.
7. There is no index.dat file to worry about, if you value your surfing privacy. Wiping of cache / cookies can be done easily.
8. The layout is much simpler, and less cluttered than IE, although you have the choice of using an extremely competant sidebar, if that's your thing.
9. You can use Google as your default search engine.
10. Mozilla is much more configurable than IE. You can choose from a selection of different skins, and icon packs, to make the browser as personal as you like. All the features, such as Tabbed Browsing, Sidebar, Site Navigation Bar, plus other toolbars and featuers are easily turn on and offable. If you like tinkering, this is the browser for you, but it can also be as simple as you like.
That concludes my case for Mozilla 1.4. Go on, try it... I dare you!
There's even a
forum for Mozilla users, if you can't find your answers here, of course!
Also in development is the Firebird browser and Thunderbird mail clients, which are basically stripped down, stand alone versions of Mozilla.
Oh, and one more thing - if you create a long post on here, and the forum freezes as you post it, when you refresh, you don't lose all your text!!
