It’s Browser Upgrade Time!

If you are running Firefox as your preferred browser you should UPGRADE NOW! The latest version 3.6 continues to improve on an already excellent product.

If you’re not running Firefox as your preferred browser, WHY NOT?

And if you’re still sticking to that bloated, troublesome dog Internet Explorer — well, words fail me. Know what a masochist is?

Installing Firefox for the first time is a trivial exercise. No explanation needed. Just click here (it’s free), download to your Windows desktop, double-click to install.

Upgrading a current installation to the new version is also commendably easy (10.6MB download). In Firefox just click Help –> Check for updates... and follow the prompts.

There’s just one thing I’ll give you advance notice about. Immediately after choosing to perform an upgrade from the Help menu, you may see a dialog with the following message:

“Some of your add-ons won’t work with Firefox 3.6, and will be disabled. As soon as they are made compatible, Firefox will update and re-enable these add-ons.”

And below that will be a list of your current add-ons that are currently incompatible (if any). If you can’t live without the add-ons mentioned, you can back out at this point.

Thanks to my experimental nature I have quite a large number of add-ons installed — probably more than most people — and only four of those were listed as being currently incompatible with Firefox 3.6, none of them of any real consequence. And anyway, they’ll be automatically updated and re-enabled in due course.

PS. If you insist on continuing to use Internet Explorer as your browser of choice then you are wasting your time reading a blog that focuses on computer and Internet security! You can’t have both.

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