Firefox - Rediscover the Web
Speaking of Internet Explorer. Are you still using it? You should seriously consider trying out Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation. It's free open source software so you can download it and install it on any or all of your computers, at home or at work (with permission of course).
It's a web browser...for the Internet. That may sound like a condescending sentence but you'd be surprised of how many people I talk to that think Internet Explorer is "The Internet" and not even know that IE is just a piece of software to access the Internet. Microsoft has done a very good job of keeping people in the dark.
One of the biggest reasons for choosing Firefox is that it does not suffer from the weaknesses of sites loading Spyware on your computer, since there is no ActiveX system in Firefox malicious web sites can't use it to install those programs.
Another great reason are what they now call Addons. You can get these free extensions to Firefox to do anything from showing you the weather down on the status bar to having full fledged FTP clients built right in.
So anyhow. Check out that link, download the free software and put the icon next to your Internet Explorer icon, run it and make it your default. If you happen to come across one of the very few sites that does not work in Firefox then you can always load up IE and go to that site and then go back over to Firefox.
I've used Firefox since it was version 0.4 and called Phoenix and I'll never go back to Internet Explorer.
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