Firefox Taking the Lead

Ever since I gave up on Netscape Navigator as my default browser sometime in the late nineties (read: since IE came bundled with Windows), I’ve just not cared that much about checking out other browsers. Frankly, there’s just so much you can expect from a browser.

Or so I thought.

I’ve known about – and used – Firefox from time to time when I wanted to check some stats from a plugin or so, for a long time now. However, I never felt compelled to make it my standard browser since the plugins alone didn’t make it worthwhile. IE was there. It’s easy to start and has felt faster (or rather have had another style of loading images that appealed to me more than that of FF). All until now.

So what has changed? Well, mostly the really nice CSS 3.0 (or whatever flavor it is) tag support became available AND generally picked up by the developer community. Just look at the latest version of Wordpress – the admin interface that is – and compare it to IE8, which btw was a step down from IE7 which is still my favorite browser due to its light feeling.

Anyways, this is me saying I’m moving over to try FF as my default browser for a while. It’s finally worth it as the web is a more beautiful place with it, and NO Chrome just doesn’t cut it. Not yet anyways. It’s display of moz-radius and the rest is just awful.