I’m already impressed.
I’ve only been playing around with Firefox 1.0, the new browser from Mozilla for a few minutes and already it’s my new favorite. It’s so much faster than Safari, which was so much faster than Internet Explorer (IE). Don’t wait! Download it now!
On top of that, it’s much safer than using IE according to experts much smarter and nerdier than me. Here’s an article on the dangers of IE at BBC online. Of course, this only affects Windows users. Mac users are generally safer, due to the security of the mac…and it’s low market share. (We don’t make as attractive a target.)
Plus, it’s got one feature that us mac users have never had in a browser before: the ability to format text in blog-like environments. Basically, I can create bold and italicized text, even links without knowing any HTML. It works like a stripped-down Word. (Admittedly, this is not a big problem for me, but is helpful for others.) In the past mac users had to type out the html code just to get this to happen in blogs.
At flyte, for a while we’ve been contemplating upgrading our pre-designed "ProSites" into more of a turnkey solution where clients could update their own sites through browsers. However, up until now we’ve held off because the technology was only available to 97% of the population. Maybe in 2005…
