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Call for Mozilla Switch, part 2

Are 6 reasons enough to convince you to switch? No? Let’s make it 10.

7. Font resizing
Mozilla is a clear winner over IE on resizing the text size of viewing web pages. You might have encountered many situations where IE can’t resize the eye-hurting font size properly. Mozilla handle that better and give you more scale on resizing.

8. Security
One day, you might find your IE behave weird:

• Scenario 1: when you fire up your favor browser IE, it’s like taking forever to load before you could place the cursor on address bar and type URL. Then it goes on as usual. Once you close it and re-open, it came again. You hate it, it’s damn annoying.
• Scenario 2: you forgot what application you have installed recently, and can’t recall which websites you’ve been surfed over yesterday. But starting today, harddisk used to be busy when PC connected to Internet. The connection icon sit at systray stay blue all the time, you wonder what the hell is going on.

You are getting parasites. It could be checked by pointing your IE to here. As it explained parasites:

‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, a program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit.

Many parasites installed their softwares through IE’s ActiveX installation option. It could be avoid by carefully answer the popup question from websites, or guard it by always ensure you got latest patches/updates from Microsoft, or protected with third party software. However, most people are ignorant of these tactic. And that put IE users under higher risk to get those annoying parasites, which waste your CPU power, and even worse, make your surfing uncomfortable.

Mozilla? It’s out of this mess.

9. Users’ voice heard
You sure would gain better control over the browser with Mozilla. And you could join the community if you like. Lots of thing you could do though you aren’t technical savvy: test beta product, sending bug report…etc. If you act politely and do your homework, the community would give you the best support you’d ever have, much better quality, and faster than the paid support. Paid support? You ask. “But IE is free?” You did paid, don’t you. Remember, *it’s part of the OS*.

10. Last, but not least, is the overall improved experience
Using Mozilla is in fact, kind of learning process. It giving you a different view of the world. Alright, you couldn’t care less, it’s OK. If other reasons is enough for you to try it out, you’d feel like to stay with it. There might still have websites where the web developer is too Microsoft-minded, so it was designed only for IE. That you could keep the option to use IE just for the purpose, for example, your internet banking site.