Crazy like a firefox

Firefox brings the fun back into web surfing--tabbed browsing is so cool. In one window I can work on a project involving several sites with each in its own tab. Then, in another window, I can be working on a different project with different tabs. Instead of ten windows open on two different projects, I have two windows with four to six related tabs each. Much more productive.

I just arranged my most visited sites in 4 tabs of one window and made that my default set up--so when I start Firefox, here they are. I'll probably leave a window with those four tabs in it open all day, then open another Firefox window for my other browsing (with tabs, of course).

Last semester, Blackboard, the course software we use at library school, had a number of problems. The word from the tech people was that Blackboard doesn't play nice with Internet Explorer, so it was gently suggested that we have an alternate browser available. I didn't have too many problems with IE and Blackboard at home using the cable modem, but at the cabin on dial-up, Blackboard was completely nonfunctional some weekends.

I chose Firefox as my new browser in part because it has been called the Searcher's Browser. Sounds appropriate for a librarian. The always-there search box is wonderful and the "find in this page" feature works more intuitively than the one in Internet Explorer.

I did run into a few problems. My Mizzou mail is in a web-based version of Microsoft Outlook and it looks quite different in Firefox than it does in Internet Explorer. I'm going to see if I can live with that. And I came across a few pages that displayed the raw html instead of the web page I expected to see--including the archives of my own blog. I'm not sure why that is....So, I'm not throwing away IE, but I'm going to use Firefox most of the time.     #

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