I’m using Firefox. I can just hear Dugi laughing for I’ve been voicing my disgust and unwillingness to change browsers for quite a while whereas he’s been more than willing to share every new thing he learns to do with his toy. I’m the proverbial old dog in my stance against change. Mostly because things become quite automatical after I’ve once learned them and then it’s such a pain to learn them differently. Like pressing Ctrl-L instead of Ctrl-O to be able to write the URL in the browser. Or the moves my mouse has to make to reach Google (with IE).

I changed my mind because a couple of blogs have this annoying layout problem when viewing them with IE: the side column drops beneath the main column with the posts instead of being, well, on the side (or vice-versa). It popped into my head to try the pages with Firefox and lo, they looked just right. Crappety crap. Then I noticed that in Firefox one can add bookmarks to an additional Bookmark Toolbar: in the future I’ll only have to open the browser and press a button to get to one of the sites I use frequently. What an asset to someone so efficiency oriented as I tend to be.

There’s a but, though, and the main reason why I haven’t switched to Firefox before. You see, some of the web based software we use at work requires IE. I know, it sucks. I also know that I dislike using two browsers, especially with different keyboard shortcuts. And there’s the nuisance of Firefox having a higher interface above the browsing window. I’ve always hated that in a browser, I want to have as much of the web page showing (vertically) as possible.

Still, I think I’ll learn to use Firefox now. Pros outweigh the cons. Feel free to say “I told you so”, baby.