Importance of alternate web browsers

The news this past week that Internet Explorer has a serious vulnerability to a virus has led experts to suggest that people try alternate browsers.

I've tried some of the free, open-source browsers and am very impressed.

Go to http://www.mozilla.org/.

I'm just getting into this, and in some ways it can be a little confusing, because there are so many Mozilla variants.

It seems that Mozilla and Netscape are identical, and are previously released stable versions of this open-source technology.

You can get a more cutting-edge version of this open-source software by trying Firefox. Also,
while Mozilla has e-mail and html-editor components, Firefox is just the browser portion.

I'm very impressed by its implementation on my Macintosh. And it's way way faster than Internet Explorer, and has more features.

Also try Camino.

When I go to these URLs, I get a Macintosh-specific page, but I think that's because it simply recognizes my OS and gives me the appropriate page.

Thanks to Eric Vautier for introducing me to this world of alternate browsers.

Jim