the corner office

Today I downloaded and installed Mozilla 1.4. One gripe: when I upgraded, the text in the (hmm), 'status bar' at the bottom was too small to be readable. This wasn't the case with the earlier version of Mozilla I'd been using. I managed to fix it by upping XP's message box font size. A small trade-off, but why did they have to go change this?

There are 3 things I really like about Mozilla:
a) tabbed browsing
b) no pop-ups
c) it's free software.

I love Mozilla to bits. When I got onto the net in '96, my first web browsing was done with Netscape Navigator version 1 (!!). Of course, I downloaded Navigator 2 almost immediately, and Netscape 3 came out around the same time -- but NN3 was a bit too resource intensive for my Powerbook 520, and I didn't use it a lot.

When I moved to Windows in '97, I stuck with NN until 2001, by which time it was just too unstable, and rendered almost nothing properly. I felt like a traitor moving to Explorer, but now I'm back! Apart from internet banking, and a bare minimum of sites, I'm a Mozilla user again. Feels good :-)