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Take back the web.

Well, since I’m always mouthing off about web standards & etc. here, I’ll do so once more. If you use Internet Explorer, in any of its incarnations, or even if you’re still back on Netscape 4, you are having an inferior Web experience. While the old Navigator is just, well, old, IE is simply irresponsible. Up to version 6 now, and it barely supports well-established web standards, and does so inconsistently. It’s full of security holes and bugs, it only lets you have one web page per window, it’s created an industry for pop-up and adware killers, and it’s made by Microsoft, which just sucks the karma out of any good you might possibly do with it.

Up until recently, the only alternative has been Mozilla. While in many ways it has been a superior product to anything else out there, it’s also been slow, stubborn, and otherwise much like the dinosaur which is its logo. Not the sort of thing you want to recommend to your less net-savvy friends.

But say no more. The Mozilla Project has grown up a lot, and with its newest offering, Firefox, they have a product which I can proudly recommend to anyone (unless, say, your still running Netscape Navigator 4 on your old Pentium). So, without further ado: