Mozilla has released a new version of their browser. Mozilla version 1.3 is downloadable for Windows, OS/2 (I know OS/2 users exist because I see them in my site logs), Linux, BeOS (if BeOS users exist they are extremely rare), Mac OS X, and Solaris. By the time you check it is possible that additional operating systems will have been added. If you have not yet tried Mozilla or Phoenix and still find yourself using Netscape v4.x or MS Internet Explorer then its time to try a new browser and see what you are missing.

I am also currently running a nightly build of the Phoenix browser. If you download a nightly it isn't guaranteed to work. But I find most do. Otherwise you can download a release build. But, hey, try living dangerously now and then.

What I especially like about Phoenix and Mozilla is the ability to turn off pop-up ads. Plus, their support for tabbed browsing is extremely great for those of us who visit large numbers of news site and blog web pages. Also, they are more threaded. Something happening while loading one page is less likely to prevent you from doing things on other pages. Similarly, operations on bookmark folders don't lock you out of doing other things. Moz and Phoenix feel more responsive than IE for this reason.