The Best Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox is the Best Web Browser

Version to use:1.5.x

You can also use the 2.0betas - they’re getting pretty good :) but many extensions aren’t compatible :(

Mozilla Firefox is growing in popularity and should easily hit Blake Ross’ desire of 10% of the market share by the end of 2005. But, it still has to be mentioned. Opera works well, but doesn’t render pages that are poorly written, its user interface is too confusing for new users, and they either charge for it or show banner ads and they used to charge for it but recently made it “free as in beer” but not “free as in conversation”. Bummer, that.

You may feel like Firefox is just another browser - even if it’s the one that the US Government’s CERT recommends to avoid IE’s virii. Then you start using extensions like StatusBar Clock and FlashBlock and you’re going to say, dang, this is pretty cool. But wait, there’s more.

You should download the Google Toolbar for Firefox along with Firefox and that will get you a nifty spell checker for textareas, pageranker, all sorts of fun stuff.

Add this to your userContent.css so that links that open from different kinds of actions/targets are clearly visible from the mouseover pointer style:

/* Change cursor for links that open in new window */
:link[target="blank"], :visited[target="blank"], :link[target="new"],   :visited[target="new"] {
   cursor:  crosshair;
}


/* Change cursor for JavaScript links */
a[href^="javascript:"] {
   cursor: move;
}