I know that I have often allowed various degrees of depressions to seep into my mind when dealing with the tragedies of others and my own, usually lesser, problems. I’m usually an optimist, so it’s troubling to me that I allow negative states to take over at times. It’s not helpful and often keeps me from duties and things I wish to accomplish. I hope to somehow overcome such unpleasant times.
Last week, during my time at my parents’ home, I became quite aware that I don’t have many friends outside of North America. In fact, other than one friend in South America and another in Asia, I don’t have friends outside of my home continent to correspond with. I took the time to seek out a few people who were also looking for someone to correspond with, and was lucky enough to find some rather interesting people who have been willing to share part of their lives with me. It has certainly been a rewarding experience through the few e-mails I’ve exchanged so far. Learning more about other cultures and people is something I believe is very important, so I’m thankful to have the opportunity.
For months now I’ve been using Firefox as my browser. It’s a wonderful piece of software and outpaces all competition of leaps and bounds. If you’re still using inferior browsers such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, you should definitely consider switching to Firefox. There are many valid arguements for leaving behind Internet Explorer, such as its lack of standards compliance, its security holes, the presence of popups and spyware (Firefox effectively eliminates them), no implementation of tabbed browsing (which is a wonderful feature I would not want to be without), and the business approach practiced by Microsoft. You can read what others think of Firefox and the general need to leave IE in the dust at many places, but two I’ve read and appreciated are Ross Laird‘s “Stop Using Internet Explorer!” and Flexbeta‘s “13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE” (the latter includes some screen shots and explains some key features). Of course, the Firefox team makes a good case for why you should switch to Firefox.
2. Popup Blocking
3. Find Stuff Easier
4. Simplified Privacy / Annoyance Eliminator
5. Better Bookmarks and History
6. Accessible, Intelligent, Responsive
7. Customizable and Extendable
8. Modern Download Manager
9. Built for standards
10. Simple interface
8 comments on “Worry, Keys, and Foxes”
ive had firefox for a long time, but what i don’t like is livejournal on it since it messes up my friends page
Unfortunately not everyone uses standard coding :/
Your LJ friends page messes up in Firefox? That’s quite odd. Is it a style you created yourself or one provided by LJ?
I think more people will switch to standards as IE becomes less and less popular. At least I can hope so.
it’s customized which is most of the problem
the thing is firefox only accept standardized coding whereas IE accepts many so it’s easier…but..whatever. still love firefox for everything else
I find IE messes up many pages, especially standards compliant pages. IE hacks and standards breaks are the only things I’ve found not to work in Firefox.
haven’t noticed that
although firefox won’t even open my friend’s webpage
Try adding {!doctype HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”} to the top of your friends page (replacing the brackets). I think that’s what’s causing your problem.
*hugs*
thanks
Firefox!
Finally, there’s another to add to the list of people who use this wonderful browser. I’ve been using it since ver. 0.2 came out, way back when it was called Firebird, and I’ve loved it ever since the first day I tried it. I’m waiting patiently for the day it reaches a 1.0 release, as I feel then it’ll make it’s grand entrance as a thoroughly publicized browser, and some very serious competition for IE. Even Opera, which is based off the same software as Firefox, is starting to be a serious contender.