A new Firefox browser released this month promises to make the Web-surfing experience just a little bit quicker while easing up on computer memory and tightening security.
Among the great things about Firefox is that it runs on just about every computing platform including Windows, Apple's OS X and Linux whereas Microsoft's Internet Explorer runs on Windows only .
Both browsers can be downloaded free of charge.
Back in the Internet Explorer 6 days, I thought Firefox had only a slight edge over IE. Sure, Firefox allowed users to open tabs with a dozen or more different Web pages in a single window. But if you forgave that omission in IE, both browsers were acceptably quick and stable.
That changed for me - big time - when I reluctantly upgraded to IE 7, the current version of the Microsoft Web browser. I waited more than a year after its release, but I finally wanted to try IE's own version of tabbed browsing and enjoy what promised to be a better all-around product.
IE 7 has been a disaster for me. While pages do look better, IE 7 is quite a bit slower. It drags on my 3-gigahertz Pentium 4 machine and taxes its 512 megabytes of memory.
Mostly I use Firefox. I've been running a beta version of Firefox 3 for a few months now in the Ubuntu Linux operating system. I didn't run the beta in Windows or OS X, preferring on those platforms to stick to FF 2 until all the bugs are worked out.
I've heard that FF 3 holds up
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