Firefox 0.8

The Mozilla people released version 0.8 of Phoenix Firebird Firefox today. I know I’ve ranted about web browsers before, but to quickly summarize why you should be using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer: pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, Built-in Search, no major security flaws that let people steal your bank passwords, and standards compliance. True, two of those are features of the Google Toolbar, but they work better when integrated right into the program as opposed to as add-ons. As for why you should care about web standards compliance, it’s really a favor to web designers. When designing a page, you do a lot of work to make it pretty, and then once you’re done you usually spend another two or three days accounting for bugs in Internet Explorer and often dumbing down the page and making it less cool because Internet Explorer’s bugs cause too many problems. If everyone used a better browser, it would save me lots of aggrevation regarding The IE Factor, let you see better-looking pages, and save people money when their tech people have to spend days and days fixing bugs that shouldn’t occur. Windows users: go download Firefox — it has the daveXtreme seal of approval!