Stop Using Internet Explorer!

Seriously, Internet Explorer is vastly inferior to some of the other products out there. I suggest either Firefox or Google Chrome. Both are way faster and slow down the rest of your computer a lot less than Internet Explorer. They've also both got some great features.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is great for casual internet browsing. The first great feature is the home screen. Let's face it: homepages are so 1999. You don't want to go to the same page every time you open your browser. So Chrome gives you a personalized home screen that has visual links to your 9 most visited pages. Totally awesome. It also lets you do a Google search right from your address bar (just type in what you're searching for instead of an URL). It's also got a bunch of little features that make browsing feel a little more intuitive. Use if for a while, and you'll start seeing that everything is just a little bit easier.


Firefox

Firefox is better if you're just a little more adventurous, for one reason: add-ons. Firefox is an Open Source browser, which means that anyone can have access to all of the code used to make the program. This matters because it makes it really easy for any programmer to make an add-on that customizes Firefox, and generally give them away for free. Check them out here. Here are a few of my favorites:

Speed dial - a Google-Chrome type home screen.
Integrated Gmail - puts Google Calendar and Google Reader in the same window as Gmail.
Autopager - You know those annoying "next page" buttons? Autopager automatically loads them in the same window. Download it and do a Google search. You'll be very impressed.
Download Statusbar - Firefox has an annoying downloader that pops up in its own window. Download Statusbar fixes this.

I don't like Firefox as much as Chrome right out of the box, but with the almost infinite customizability, it's definitely my browser of choice.

But for god's sake, stop using Internet Explorer. It's awful.