mike brady

Member since: Jul 10th, 2006

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New statistics show Firefox is moving steadily to the top (Download Squad)

Oct 13th 2006 11:32AM As a web developer I thought that I would really dig all of the neat features in Firefox. I gave it a try and I still have both browsers installed on my PC. But, I just find myself spending almost all of my time in IE.

In the end, most of the users who use my web sites are using IE. If I stick with IE, it is just one less thing that I have think about.

Yes, I know that Firefox has an IE plug-in so that I can easily check my web pages with both browsers -- and I have used that sometimes for checking my sites.

But, even with all the plug-ins, Firefox is just not compelling enough for me to switch. I've been doing tabbed browsing in IE for a long time now with the Yahoo Toolbar at first and now with the Windows Live toolbar.

I was a martyr for the underdog technologies for a while when I was a UNIX programmer and Linux user. That crap just gets tiring. I'm not a zealot either way with the browsers and I do think that Firefox is great. I just don't have the time to try to champion another underdog.

Why Don't You Have a Yahoo! ID? (Download Squad)

Aug 8th 2006 8:33AM I don't understand these folks who say that Yahoo Mail receives too much spam. I have an email address with all of the services. I use Yahoo mail the most, but I get the least spam. IMO, Yahoo does the best job of filtering out spam.

Oh, I don't consider what Yahoo puts in my bulk mail folder as "getting spam".

Yahoo! and Google share in the ability to disappoint (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Jul 10th 2006 8:03AM That's why I always end up going back to Yahoo when the excitement wears off after tinkering with some really cool new feature on Windows Live and Google. In the end, Yahoo is much more usable day in and day out.