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To: Kayaker who wrote (47425)	3/5/2006 12:41:04 PM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Switching to Firefox... Yesterday, I tried the IE7 beta 2. It has tabs, but I can't say I was too impressed. One annoying "feature" (well, it IS a beta) is that it resets font effects in IE7 to "cleartype". I know that looks good on an LCD monitor, but it looks pretty crappy on my CRT. What's worse is a bug that sets "cleartype" in Outlook Express and there's no way to fix it without a registry tweak. (Resetting the cleartype option in the Control Panel doesn't affect it.) Anyhow, I got fed up and uninstalled IE7. So I spent some time with Firefox. I downloaded a few "themes" to pretty up the interface. I'm using the Maczilla Graphite theme and it looks good. The tabs are great. I have it set up to load 5 different web pages (in 5 tabs) when I start Firefox. Sure makes web site navigation a lot easier. The only extensions I'm using right now are Adblock and Adblock Filterset.G Updater. It's SOOOOO nice not to have to put up with ads anymore. No more animated banner ads! It even takes the banner ad out of the top of "My Yahoo" and then collapses the space so you'd never know there was an ad there in the first place. And no ads speeds up page loading. Good Stuff! I haven't tried Thunderbird for email yet, but will give it a try soon. Its ability to also accept extensions makes it pretty attractive I think.