If you're running a Windows operating system (particularly Vista), you may have experienced several problems with the Internet Explorer web browser. One of the most common problems with Internet Explorer is that it runs slow. Too slow for the Web 2.0 age.
An obvious solution to speed things up with Internet Explorer (and the entire operating system for that matter) is to purchase more RAM. The addition of 1 to 2 more Gigs of RAM can make a tremendous improvement to system performance. This is something that you need to do anyway if you plan on running a bunch of applications and doing lots of work on your machine. However, the addition of more RAM may not eliminate your displeasure with Internet Explorer.
It's not that Internet Explorer is a particularly bad web browser; but it's definitely not great. Guess which web browser is great? Fiefox! Guess what else? It's free! You can download Firefox for free at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
Firefox offers tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses your desired search engine (google, yahoo, amazon, answers, creative commons, ebay, ect.). The speed and simplicity of Firefox is what draws in new users every day to Mozilla's web-site. In fact, as of May 2008 Firefox had 18.41% of the recorded usage share of web browsers, making it the second-most popular web browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer. If you have never tried Firefox, you owe it to yourself to download it for free at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
An obvious solution to speed things up with Internet Explorer (and the entire operating system for that matter) is to purchase more RAM. The addition of 1 to 2 more Gigs of RAM can make a tremendous improvement to system performance. This is something that you need to do anyway if you plan on running a bunch of applications and doing lots of work on your machine. However, the addition of more RAM may not eliminate your displeasure with Internet Explorer.
It's not that Internet Explorer is a particularly bad web browser; but it's definitely not great. Guess which web browser is great? Fiefox! Guess what else? It's free! You can download Firefox for free at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
Firefox offers tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses your desired search engine (google, yahoo, amazon, answers, creative commons, ebay, ect.). The speed and simplicity of Firefox is what draws in new users every day to Mozilla's web-site. In fact, as of May 2008 Firefox had 18.41% of the recorded usage share of web browsers, making it the second-most popular web browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer. If you have never tried Firefox, you owe it to yourself to download it for free at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
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