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I haven’t really used mozilla on windows in quite a while. First it was slow or buggy, then I was really busy. Decided I had a bit of free time and I would check it out. Wow, what more can I say.

After installing it I braced myself for sudden crashes, slow surfing, and a whole host of annoying bugs and quirks.

I was dead wrong and pleasantly suprised.

Surfing used to be fun, but the past few years it has become incredibly annoying, if its not pop-up ads (surfing around for a few minutes leads to a massive number of small little pop-up windows), its stupid porn ads. I heard an estimate that the x10 camera pop-up ad accounted for 1% of all internet traffic at one time (think that now spam accounts for 5-10% of internet traffic). Mozilla gives me hope that the annoying factor can be taken out of surfing once again. It has a pop-up stopper and ad-blocker feature built right in. I’ve used IE pop-up stoppers in the past but they were lacking and I generally uninstalled them shortly after, Mozilla’s approach is so well integrated and simple to use that its great. It also blocks out banner ads from sites (just right click and select block images from this server)

Then there is the really nice sidebar with lots of cool little plugins to do all sorts of interesting things. The tabbed interface is really alot nicer than multiple windows in IE as well.

It has quickly replaced Internet Explorer in my heart and is well on its way to becoming my default browser. Who says innovation is dead in the browser? MSFT had better watch out and get with the program or the tide may turn once again (or they will do the usual and “emulate” alot of the same features)…

My rating is Mozilla is a solid 5 stars!