(Originally reviewed by kiyawhite at reviewcentre.com)

Good Points

>Loads web pages quickly
>Barely restricts transfer rates, especially when compared to other browsers
>Tabbed browsing

Bad Points

>Horrible download manager facility
>Not as well designed and user-friendly as AOL 9.0
>Not as easy-to-use as the clear interface used in Internet Explorer 6/7beta

General Comments

I never really wanted to try Mozilla Firefox as a browser, but when a visitor arrived at my house and saw me using AOL 9.0 on my computer he immediately said, “Get Firefox, NOW!,” or something similar.

so that’s what I did.
Downloading and installing the browser was as easy as any other piece of software. When I first opened the browser, it didn’t look as eye-catching as I thought it would look after all of the good stuff I had been told about it. It appeared messy and unattractive. Upon use, it turned out that the interface wasn’t that good. True, I must say that transfer speeds when downloading webpage’s to view had improved, but upon testing it was only by about 6kbps, which doesn’t make much difference as I’m on broadband anyway.

what astonished me about this browser was the apparent lack of plug-ins! It didn’t seem to have any available to it! Where were they all? The program’s virtual interface had been put together in such a way that the browser needs a plug-in to do almost every interactive thing you’d like to on the net and, at the time, it didn’t seem as if there weren’t any available to get!
Now some more are appearing, but still at a very slow rate.

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