Switching to FireFox

So alas, I shifted to using FireFox from using Internet Explorer(IE). The reason
for the shifts are manifold. Well I started using Linux desktop, and well
firefox was the default browser in the distro I was using, and it wasn't
so bad I thought :-) So I got used to using firefox, and contrary to what
some so called "experts" claim, you don't have to be a geek to use firefox.

On my windows machine, I upgraded to IE7, and I saw that IE7 had support
for multiple tabs. Wow I thought, now that would make IE better. But
discovered later, that organizing favourites in IE is a nightmare now. I
have a pretty big list of favourites, and when I want to add a link to a
deeply nested directory, IE7 makes that a nightmare. Another good
feature that IE cannot handle well is increasing font size by pressing
"Ctrl +" keys. IE increases the horizontal screen size, when you try to
do so, due to which you get a horizontal scroll bar, which is quite
annoying sometimes. FireFox doesn't increase the size horizontally
and handles that pretty well.

Another feature is while browsing sites which present security
certificates. Firefox allows you to accept certificates permanently, so
that you aren't asked again for accepting certificates everytime
you browse the same site again. IE instead makes it harder, even
if you accept a certificate, and it doesn't understands the
certificate, or rather the certificate is not from some trusted authority,
it would keep on telling you that the site is untrusted and do you
really want to access that page. Also the button for saying "yes" is
red in color, and is pretty non-obvious. Adding to IE's pain points.

I like apps which consume less memory, and if you use the Multi
tab feature in IE, IE starts to hog a lot of memory, which makes
the system slow.
And if you browse through a zillion sites in half an hour, right-click
stops working in IE and sometimes even in Windows, and bizzare
things starts to happen, unless you restart IE.

With all these annoying features in IE7, I thought I better switch to
Firefox, and stop this "feature discovering" exercise on IE :-)

Also Firefox comes with a lot of cool extensions, to make browsing a
lot of fun. So goodbye IE and welcome to FireFox !