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...make you wealthier and more appealing to members of the opposite sex. The gift, oh ye weary users of Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mac users who browse with Safari may continue to tune in, but your lot is not quite so dire), is Mozilla Firefox—an alternate web browser and the answer to your subconscious prayers...
...demand for cable over Ethernet and free printing, and I couldn’t quite tell what Teo P. Nicholais ’06 and Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 were proposing, because their non-standards-compliant web site didn’t render properly in my browser...
...piece of the growing search-related advertising market. While not as powerful as Google, MSN search is close--fast, accurate and nearly as comprehensive as its rival. The not-so-good: a new challenger arose with the release of Firefox 1.0 (download it at mozilla.org) a Web browser that offers real improvements over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. On Firefox, Web pages load faster, and there are an excellent pop-up blocker and a number of innovative features like tabbed browsing, which displays multiple sites in one window. More important, Firefox has shown fewer security vulnerabilities than Explorer. --By Mark Coatney
...Although it has not confirmed its plans, Yahoo! acquired Oddpost, a San Francisco RSS company, in July, and could use the firm's technology to integrate RSS into the popular Yahoo! Mail service. Early next year, Apple plans to release a new version of its Safari Web browser, complete with a built-in RSS news reader. Still, mass-market adoption of RSS will probably depend on Microsoft incorporating a news reader into its next Internet Explorer or Outlook e-mail program. So far, the company has given no indication of any such plans. But if RSS numbers continue to grow...
...your kids access the Web from a regular Web browser, however, you have to do a little more work. While there is a built-in Content Advisor in Internet Explorer and a SafeSearch feature in Google, I found both ineffective: they either fail to block pornographic websites altogether or block so many sites that your browser becomes unusable. (For example, I was unable to log on to the Nickelodeon kids' site nick.com using Internet Explorer's Content Advisor...