I have been using Firefox for several months now since just before the official version was released. Initially I was using both IE and Firefox, but then made the full switch. Overall, I like it a lot. Some pages don't come up as well as they do with Internet Explorer. My biggest issue, frankly, was that I use the toolbars often. In this job, I end up doing many a search, and the toolbar makes that search easily accessible. Firefox has a search box in the top right corner. But I missed my toolbar I happen to use the because I end up using Yahoo! for all those e-mail lists that I don't want to clutter my FCW mail. But the folks at Yahoo came up with a Mozilla version of their toolbar that works great.Overall it is an efficient Web browser.
Yahoo! toolbar
Apparently there have been more than 50 million free downloads of Mozilla's open source Firefox Web browser. FCW's review team offered their take last month as part of a special report on open source software.
Sometimes less is more. Especially if it means you get a faster, trimmer Web browser that isn't subject to the crashes and security gaps that afflict the market-leading Microsoft Internet Explorer. Say hello to the Mozilla organization's Firefox, an open-source upstart that could well give Internet Explorer a run for its money.
Yahoo! toolbar
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