Internet Explorer is a slow and un-friendly way to browse the Internet

Are you still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to browse the Internet?

Internet Explorer is pre-loaded onto all versions of Windows and many people never switch away from it or know an alternative even exsists!

The browser is well known to display many websites incorrectly; you will have a much better online experience with another browser (another program to read the Internet’s many webpages).

Another bad point about IE (there are many!) is the amount of computer memory it uses plus it displays new websites in whole new windows creating IE clones all over the place.

If you Google the term “IE problems” then you get an incredible 722 MILLION results!

So what browser should you use instead?  It only takes about 5-10 minutes to download and set up a brand new web-browser on your laptop so don’t be put of making the effort to do so.

Firefox is the most widely used browser on the Internet today and the best too

There is one clear winner when it comes to choosing the right surfing software; the  top Internet program called Mozilla Firefox.

It uses significantly less RAM which speeds up your laptop and it has add-ons, tabbed browsing and a zoom function if you find it hard to read small text.

Some add-ons can save you time, one add-on can control your favourite music player (such as itunes) fom the bottom of the web-browser meaning that you don’t have to switch windows to change the track or volume.

Tip: Tabbed browsing allows you to have multiple webpages on the same broswer window, press “CTRL + T” to open a new tab and “CTRL + W” to close them.  These save time by not needing to load up a new window each time you want another web-page open at the same time plus it saves on computer memory too!

Enough of me talking about Firefox, you should go and install it right now: here’s the link to the official download page

If you already have Firefox then you may want to make sure you have the latest version, version 3 is slightly quicker than version 2.  Not happy with Firefox? Try Google’s great new browser which is still currently under development called Google Chrome, it has a few bugs at the moment but may soon become the best ever browser and it’s the fastest yet.