You have choice!

Question:

I’ve heard about alternative web browsers such as Mozilla’s FireFox. What is it and how is it different?

Answer:

Just like we don’t all drive black cars and wear the same clothes, there’s no reason for all of us to be using Internet Explorer just because it comes with the Windows operating system.

There are a few alternatives like Apple’s Safari browser, Opera and the ever fast market share building Mozilla’s Firefox.

At TrafficSynergy we use FireFox as our browser of choice, although we test everything in a variety of browsers.
Firefox is a FREE open source browser that runs faster in our tests than most versions of IE.

Firefox has actually got somewhere between 15% and 20% of the US marketshare of browsers and is rising rapidly.

Some of the reasons we chose Firefox are the speed at which pages load, when you go back it remembers what you had entered in a form and FireFox add-ons.

Firefox allows add-ons to your browser which range from “pimping” to highly technical advancements.
Examples of great add-ons are Permatabs, Tab Preview, FireFTP and Facebook Toolbar.
There is even an extension to test how a site will look in IE from within Firefox.

A great feature of Firefox is that it remembers the sites you had open when you closed the browser, upon re-opening FireFox it gives you the option to continue where you left off or start anew. Great for unexpected power failures.

I’m sure Microsoft will start to copy many of these add-ons in IE8 once they sort out all its security holes, but until then we suggest FireFox.
And with Firefox 3 almost ready for release, IE8 might already be a dinosaur.