Mozilla has released the newest version of Firefox! Hopefully anyone that visits my site somewhat regularly is already using Firefox. For those of you who are not, it’s time to switch. Download Firefox 3 and start using it to see the difference a web browser can make. People always ask me what the difference is and there isn’t much I can tell them other than to try it and see how you like it. There isn’t much you lose by giving Firefox a try over Internet Explorer.
One of my favorite features are the built in SearchWords which allow you to designate a letter to your favorite search engines that simply let you search from the address bar instead of loading the search engine first. You type the letter, hit the space bar and then type what you want to search and hit enter. For example, if you want to look up Firefox on Wikipedia and you have already assigned w to the Wikipedia search engine, you would click on the address bar and type, w Firefox. This will take you directly to the Firefox page on Wikipedia rather than going to Wikipedia first and then typing in your search. It is a little thing but I find it hard to live without it now as it just makes searching things that much easier. I have a letter assigned to Wikipedia, Amazon, EBay, You Tube, Google, Webster Dictionary and a few others.
There are lots of add-ons in Firefox and each one brings new convenience to surfing the web. Firefox is faster, safer and has a better user interface. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
