Microsoft's achilles heel. It was a big eye opener to us when we realized that all the visual clutter, viruses and problems associated with our computer largely had to do with the fact that we were using Internet Explorer, the browser we caved into using years ago, when we switched from an Apple with Netscape.
Hackers and advertisers LOVE Internet Explorer because everyone uses it, so they write all their code to latch on and attach themselves to it. If you don't use IE, problem solved....or most of it.
And you can't beat tabbed browsing!
Check out Mozilla's mail client Thunderbird as well. It's cool. And I hear v1.0 is going to have integrated RSS feeds!
These browsers are also faster than IE. Whenever I'm forced back onto a Windows machine I am amazed at the waiting time for pages to load, as well as the realization that I forgot pop-ups even still existed. And yes, I could not live without tabbed browsing; I really don't even understand people who don't use it.
This is my first time here and was wondering how often posts are made?