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Mozilla Firefox is an excellent web browser with many more features than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Since its creation just over a year ago, Firefox has been downloaded over 220,000,000 times! The web browser is used by millions of users every day. Why has the Firefox browser become so popular so quickly? Let’s find out.

Firefox, like Internet Explorer (IE), is completely free. Firefox, unlike IE, has few bugs, is more secure, has inbuilt and extra no-charge features, and loads web pages faster. That’s not just one better reason to make the switch. IE, like the best of the Microsoft products, is regularly attacked with many bugs and faults being discovered on a regular basis. As a result of this, Microsoft is forced to release security updates for its products. A problem with this is that many IE users do not have Automatic Updates enabled on their computers, which could result in Spyware, Viruses or Credit Card Fraud occurring (For more, see this article). Firefox is a fresh new face to the internet world and is far more secure than IE. Barely anything fails in Firefox, but if something should go wrong, the browser can be run in Safe Mode so the user can have the problem rectified, hassle free. Firefox comes with extra and very useful and important features. Capable of not just taking you over the world, Firefox’s inbuilt RSS reader allows you to easily subscribe to news or other feeds, such as The Machets’ Blog or The Age Headlines. If you decide to install the Firefox browser with Google Toolbar bundled, your internet experience would be greatly benefited. With the browser and toolbar, you’ll be able to search the web as well as fill in forms automatically, translate webpages, check your spelling and much more! Getting the Firefox browser with Google Toolbar is definitely the best way to explore the internet.

Firefox supports many extensions (the equivalent to IE’s desolate Add-ons feature) where contributors from all over the world can make useful extra features for the browser. In addition to this, Firefox sports a clean and simple interface, which makes websites load faster than the default Windows browser. This is an especially important aspect of the program for internet users on snail-paced dial-up speeds.

Overall, Firefox deserves a glowing report. It is clearly evident why so many people have made the move from the under-achieving Internet Explorer 6 to the simple and popular Mozilla Firefox. Let’s see what Microsoft has to offer in IE7, to be released at the end of 2006. In the meantime, go to getfirefox.com and make the switch today!

Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush meet up in Baghdad for the first round of talks in a new peace process. When George sits down, he notices three buttons on the side of Saddam’s chair. They begin talking. After about five minutes Saddam presses the First button. A boxing glove springs out of a box on the desk and punches Bush in the face.

Confused, Bush carries on talking as Saddam laughs. A few minutes later the second button is pressed. This time a big boot comes out and kicks Bush in the shin. Again Saddam laughs, and again Bush carries on talking, not wanting to put off the bigger issue of peace between the two countries. But when the third button is pressed and another boot comes out and kicks Bush in the privates, he’s finally had enough, knowing that he can’t do much without them functioning well. “I’m going back home!” he tells the Iraqi. “We’ll finish these talks in two weeks!”

A fortnight passes and Saddam flies to the United States for talks. As the two men sit down, Hussein notices three buttons on Bush’s chair and prepares himself for the Yank’s revenge. They begin talking and Bush presses the first button. Saddam ducks, but nothing happens. George snickers. A few seconds later he presses the second button. Saddam jumps up, but again nothing happens. Bush roars with laughter. When the third button is pressed, Saddam jumps up again, and again nothing happens. Bush falls on the floor in a fit of hysterics.

“Forget this,” says Saddam. “I’m going back to Baghdad!”

Dubya says through tears of laughter, “What Baghdad?”

One day, the Pope is visiting America and driving around Washington in his limo when he gets an idea.
“Driver? Can I drive for a while?”
“Sure,” says the driver. How can you say no to the Pope? So the Pope takes the wheel and starts driving like a maniac all around Washington — dodging in and out of traffic, going eighty, cutting people off. Soon, a cop pulls him over. But when the Pope rolls down the window, the cop stops dead in his tracks, and goes back to the car.
“We got somebody really important here,” he says to his partner.
“Who is it? Is it a senator?”
“No. More important.”
“The president?”
“No. More important.”
“An ambassador? Who?”
“I don’t know. But the Pope is his driver.”