{"id":16,"date":"2004-08-06T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/archives\/2004\/08\/firefox-is-the-coolest-browser\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T03:36:14","slug":"firefox-is-the-coolest-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2004\/08\/06\/firefox-is-the-coolest-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox is the Coolest Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded Firefox two days ago. What a cool browser.<\/p>\n<p>I ditched Internet Explorer at home a few moths ago for Netscape. Every time I opened IE for the first time, it would take nearly a minute to load the first page. That was simply unacceptable and since I could not find the problem, I simply switched to another browser.<\/p>\n<p>While I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/channels.netscape.com\/ns\/browsers\/\">Netscape<\/a>, I became addicted to tabbed browsing. It has come to the point where I detest using IE at work because I always have to open new windows instead of new tabs. There were some other cool features as well.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> and decided to try it. It was a nice download; less than a minute on DSL. It automatically imported my Netscape bookmarks, favourites, links and passwords. Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>After I installed it, I checked out all the <a href=\"http:\/\/update.mozilla.org\/extensions\/?application=firefox\">extensions<\/a> that were available. Wowee. What a find. Now, not only do I have tabbed browsing, but I have the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tabbed browsing manager<\/li>\n<li>Drag and drop tabs to the order you want<\/li>\n<li>Undo closed tabs<\/li>\n<li>Target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; links open in new tab<\/li>\n<li>URLs typed in address bar open in new tab<\/li>\n<li>Links clicked on from email or IM open in new tab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some other cool features include GMail notification, spell check (similar to IESpell), web developer toolbar, auto search by typing words, view source for a selection of text, mailto links open in the e-mail application I indicated as my system\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s default application. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>I am never going to another browser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getfirefox.com\/\" title=\"Get Firefox - Web browsing redefined.\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/buttons\/getfirefox_large2.png?resize=178%2C60\" width=\"178\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Get Firefox\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ditched Internet Explorer at home a few moths ago for Netscape. Every time I opened IE for the first time, it would take nearly a minute to load the first page. That was simply unacceptable and since I could not find the problem, I simply switched to another browser.<\/p>\n<p>While I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/channels.netscape.com\/ns\/browsers\/\">Netscape<\/a>, I became addicted to tabbed browsing. It has come to the point where I detest using IE at work because I always have to open new windows instead of new tabs. There were some other cool features as well.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> and decided to try it. It was a nice download; less than a minute on DSL. It automatically imported my Netscape bookmarks, favourites, links and passwords. Very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2005\/03\/04\/netscape-80\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":0},"title":"Netscape 8.0","author":"Kim Siever","date":"4 March 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Netscape has released a public beta version of Navigator 8.0.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Browsers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Browsers","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/category\/browsers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2004\/08\/10\/internet-explorer-65\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":1},"title":"Internet Explorer 6.5?","author":"Kim Siever","date":"10 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 yesterday. 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