First Impressions of the Mozilla Browser

I decided to download the Mozilla browser to see what the buzz was all about.

If you were not aware, the Mozilla browser is a new / old / opensource challenge to Internet Explorer. The name "Mozilla" traces itself back to Netscape Navigator, and the Mozilla browser has a lot of very nice features in it. I particularly like the "tabs" feature, and if IE doesn't get that soon, well, shame on them.

Here's how it works. Let's say you are reading a page and you see a link you want to eventually read. Click on it while holding the control key, and that page loads in the background on a separate tab. Then, when you are ready to read it, just click on the tab and the page has already loaded in the background.

Very nice, especially for people on slow connections.

I think I recall reading that there are some tab "add-ins" for Internet Explorer. If I stay with IE, I may have to investigate those.

So far, I'm impressed. I'm not sure I'll dump IE, though. I do keep my security patches up to day, religously, with a little paranoia built thrown in for good measure.

I notice that it doesn't render some pages correctly, though. For example, the javascript code on the donormanager screen shots page do not render properly. Hey, it's a beta!

All in all, worth investigating: http://www.mozilla.org