{"id":93,"date":"2005-11-20T03:09:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/13-good-reasons-to-switch-to-firefox\/"},"modified":"2005-11-20T03:09:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T09:09:44","slug":"13-good-reasons-to-switch-to-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/13-good-reasons-to-switch-to-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Good Reasons to Switch to FireFox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killbillsbrowser.com\/\">This Web site<\/a> is on a crusade to destroy the prowess of Internet Explorer.  This guy needs to &#8220;beta&#8221; IE7 to make a fair assumption &#8212; The upcoming release of new IE browser has the necessary ingredients to challenge FireFox, viz. Tabbed Browsing, Security enhancements, RSS reader, built-in pop-up blocker, etc. etc. I like Firefox &#8216;coz of Greasemonkey, Javascript Shell, DOM Inspector, Platypus and plethora of other handy development tools. Top most is Firefox&#8217;s DOM Level 2 &#038; CSS compatibility matrix, on which IE has mostly sucked so far. The worse is IE&#8217;s event handling model, which probably is getting a facelift with IE7. The IE7 development team has also promised to ease the pain of managing browser compatibility with IE7 (What about IE 5.5\/6.0!?!)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s truly amazing that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/\">IE7 team<\/a> has been listening to all the feedback the blogging community is feeding them. They are even working on a Firefox plugin for Windows Vista! Microsoft has realized that there is a much better way to win.<br \/>\n&#8230; But, then there is <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.wsj2.com\/flock_the_web_20_browser_takes_off.htm\">Flock<\/a> to challenge both IE 7 and Firefox.<br \/>\n<i>This entry composed on Firefox\/1.0.4<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Web site is on a crusade to destroy the prowess of Internet Explorer. This guy needs to &#8220;beta&#8221; IE7 to make a fair assumption &#8212; The upcoming release of new IE browser has the necessary ingredients to challenge FireFox, viz. Tabbed Browsing, Security enhancements, RSS reader, built-in pop-up blocker, etc. etc. I like Firefox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}