We generally include our “tech” notes and recommendations in the “tech” section of the Fastpitchwest Forum. From time to time, though, we run across a significant development in the world of tech that we think warrants inclusion in the Morning Brief. Today’s release of a major upgrade of the Firefox webbrowser, version 1.5 is cause for special attention.
For those of you already using Firefox, I think you will love the upgrade from version 1.07 to version 1.50. Rather than telling you what’s new, I’ll leave that to the folks that designed it tell you. Click the logo above.
For those of you asking “What is Firefox”, we’ll say simply that it’s an alternative — and big improvement — over Internet Explorer.
Firefox is the browser of choice for Fastpitchwest, and the one we recommend to our readers. It’s been getting rave reviews since it first came out, and is garnering an ever growing share of the browser market. Internet Explorer was the only game in town for a long time, and unfortunately, that meant not much in the way of improvements for their browser. Lot of people switched to Firefox to get away from the increase in virus attacks on IE. Firefox is “open source”, meaning they provide the keys to development of all kinds of “add-ons” for a variety of uses. (“Extensions” they call them)
If you’re not using Firefox and ask “why should I change”, we could give you a laundry list of reasons. But the best way to find out is simply to try it. It’s free. Just click the logo below and you can take it for a test drive. But if you really want to see why we think it runs circles around Internet Explorer, drive it for a week or two. Discover its features. If nothing else, try “tabbed browsing” (Microsoft is adding to its next version of Internet Explorer. What is tabbed browsing? Well, click Control-T and open 5 websites at once. Open Fastpitchwest, then Morning Brief, then The Deuce, then GHFL.ca, and the official ISC website.