The Brad Hole

I'm continually surprised to find that people use Internet Explorer as their web browser. When Mozilla was nearing final for the Mac, I made the switch and haven't looked back.

My biggest beef with Mozilla on OSX has been it's rather plain appearance, but Mac users can download the excellent Pinstripe theme and put that behind them. Through thick and thin, I've stayed with Mozilla. I did switch to Safari for a time, but that came to a halt when I discovered that it totally anti-aliased printouts from the FedEx website, effectively botching the barcodes for their online shipping sheets.

Other people swear by Camino, and indeed its use of Aqua-native widgets in the web page content area, like in Safari, is great. However, I find it a bit unstable and a bit lacking in options compared to Mozilla, so I've never stayed with it for too long. I generally avoid nightlies, but I expect I'll give it another try when they get around to doing another official point release.

But anyway, if you're using a Mac or a PC, there's really no compelling reason to stay with IE and many compelling reasons to switch - pop-up blocking being number one, tabbed browsing being another. There's also the fact that just about every browser but IE gets regular updates that continue to put distance between them and IE. I'm sure someday Microsoft will update IE and catch up, but why wait?

Switch now. Do it do it do it do it do it!