Happiness wrote:
Likes:

- Safer than IE - fewer security holes, blocks pop-up windows and spyware (and did it before IE introduced this)

- Tabbed browsing - so you can easily have several windows accessible at the same time - might be the answer to getting your emails in one place if you're using webmail like MSN or Yahoo - you can set up your most visited sites on a toolbar which is visible as soon as you go to your homepage - easy to access them all from there

- Lots of useful add-ons (extensions and themes)- these change the on-screen look, speed up page loading, and loads of other stuff

- It's not a Microsoft product - anything that can be done to weaken the stranglehold they are trying to impose on computer usage is a good thing as far as I'm concerned

- It's free - and open-source, so you can even tweak it yourself if you've got the programming know-how.

Only one dislike - can't post on this site when I use it - no idea why. No problem with logging in & viewing pages. Have also found that some other sites don't work quite as they should when using Firefox - seems that most designers assume that visitors will use IE as the norm, but this is changing as Firefox becomes more popular.

Overall, I've found that IE looks and feels extremely limited once you get used to Firefox - it really is a better product. Opera (which I'm using now) is also pretty good - has many similar features to Firefox, though again doesn't work with some sites.

On the email issue, another alternative is using an e-mail client called Thunderbird (also from Mozilla, makers of Firefox) - it's their version of Outlook, and you can set up multiple accounts to receive mail from a number of sources - so if you have Yahoo and Hotmail addresses, for example, you can configure Thunderbird to download your mail from both into separate folders within it. Takes a little setting up, but it's a good way of having a single collection point for all your mail regardless of the number of addresses you have.

Think your husband has a point!niceone.gif