Firefox 2

Hot on the heels of IE7, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox today. Ars Technica wrote a review of one of the betas which is mostly still relevant, if you want to know about what’s new in this version. Mostly it’s just polish, with some performance fixes and a new phishing detector to protect you from sites pretending to be your bank. All the polish adds up to a nice browser, but there aren’t any major new features that will change how you surf the inter-tubes. Still, it’s free and it renders webpages better than Internet Explorer, so give it a download.

Koz Codes : Feed Your Reader

Koz Codes : Feed Your Reader

Handy Firefox extension that hacks the little oranga feed icon to work with any RSS reader, whether it’s web-based or a standalone client.

The World is Watching | Spread Firefox

The World is Watching | Spread Firefox

Firefox now claims 10% of the worldwide marketshare.

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange

Cool. It’s good to see collaboration going on.

Firefox - Rediscover the web

Firefox - Rediscover the web

New version of Firefox out (1.5). A few new features and loads of bug fixes.

Google on Tabbed Browsing

Google on Tabbed Browsing

Usability study on tabs. A close box on every tab is better.

The New Firefox Tag Line

The new Firefox tag line

Great anecdote.

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!