Firefox for Browsing the 'Net

My two biggest gripes about Microsoft's Internet Explorer have to do with text size and printing of web pages. When I tried out the free Mozilla Foundation Firefox browser, I was delighted to find that both of these issues have been nicely resolved. I've been a Firefox fan ever since.

With Firefox, if I want to change the size of text on any website, I simply press {Shift and +} to increase the text size or {Shift and -} to decrease it. It makes no difference whether the text is generated by an HTML document, JavaScript or Macromedia, it works for every kind of web page!

The other issue that so often drove me crazy with Internet Explorer was that many of the web pages that I wanted to print would not quite fit on standard 8.5" by 11" paper. The result was usually that the right inch or so of the web page was missing from my printout. Too many times I would have to print in "landscape" format just to get it all on the paper. Firefox eliminates this problem completely by shrinking the web page down just enough to fit it on my paper. What a concept!

The only downside with Firefox is that a small handful of websites just don't display properly. In those rare instances, I have to crank up my Internet Explorer to view them. I predict this will only be a problem for a short time, however, while the folks at Mozilla get the last kinks out of their otherwise great product.