Anilrgowda

What is your preference in Web browsers between the standard Microsoft version and competitors such as Firefox?As Microsoft's marketing mavens gear up to blitz the world Jan. 30 with the debut of the Vista operating system, a lot of folks are getting a glimpse of things to come by downloading -- and sometimes hating -- the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browser.
Ironically the release of IE 7, which I consider first rate, seems to be prompting a significant number of people to take a look at the competing free browser from Mozilla.org called Firefox, which now is offering its 2.0.1 version.
For IE folks, Microsoft's significant added feature now allows "tabbed" browsing, which lets you keep a string of Web pages, each available by clicking on its tab at the top of the display.
You can call up a main page showing your stock prices and then open more tabs for a page showing research on individual companies. Or you can store a string of blogs, one after the other, ready to scan at will without downloading again. Tabs have been in Firefox for years.
Naturally, all of this has generated a bit of contention among users of Microsoft Windows, where Firefox fans put down IE and users of IE 7 say they don't want to bother with changing anything on their computers that is working.
I'm an unlikely Solomon, but I do know what I would order if I were in charge: Use them both.
There's an awful lot to be gained by going through the refreshingly simple download and installation of Firefox 2 and running it alongside IE, which comes installed as part of Windows.
You'll get two advantages with dual browsers. Most significantly, you'll be amazed and pleased to learn about the great number of add-ons and extensions to Firefox that can let you do near-miraculous stuff that Microsoft either doesn't want you to do or doesn't seem to know how to do in its own right.
But first, a relatively pedestrian benefit that can be had by running both browsers side by side. Dual browsers are better in many ways than just a line of tabs for the sake of sanity alone. The browsers' interfaces look very different, so you can purse one type of stuff in one and do totally different work in the other.
I use one of the browsers for serious research and study while using the other browser when I get involved in stuff that seems at the leading edge and that might mess up the current session.