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Benefits of Firefox

I put off downloading Mozilla Firefox, for some time. Often after I've downloaded something, some of my other computer programs seem to go haywire. I didn't want that to happen to me again.

Finally, I decided I'd try Firefox. Within two days of my downloading and using it, I wanted to give it a five star review. But I thought that might come across as if I was lavishing false praise on it, after using it for such a short amount of time. Then I got sidetracked. The Internet often has that effect on me.

Now that I have been using it more often, I feel compelled to tell you about the many benefits there are in using this innovative Internet Browser.

I'm one of those people, who likes to have many computer windows open all at the same time.
Sometimes I've gotten a message that says, I've reached the limit of how many windows I can have open all at once. Even computers reach their limits I guess! I figured I was
multi-tasking, by having so many windows open all at the same time.

I'm still on a slow dial up connection. So while one program was being opened, why not have the others that I wanted to look at, get themselves started in that procedure?

The problem I often had in doing that was that when they were all minimized, I couldn't distinguish one open minimized window from the others. Then I had to go about restoring many of them, so I could find the one I actually wanted to look at right then. In addition to that, sometimes, my browser not only moved at a crawl, but it would come to a full-blown stop.

I couldn't scroll through any screens. Clicking my mouse keys many times, didn't get anything moving for me either. Everything just came to a standstill. All I could do was sit and wait, until one of my many windows finally was opened enough so I could get a glimpse of it.

I have a hard time just sitting there doing nothing! So, of course I used my time wisely, improving my skills at playing a game of cards, like Spider Solitaire or Free Cell, while I was waiting for those breezes to blow on me, from the many windows I wanted to open.

Sometimes I got a message that AOL was no longer responding to me. It was as if I had given AOL a major headache, by wanting it to open all those windows at the same time. So AOL got even with me, and said, that's it! I've had it! I won't open one more window for you now. I won't even keep on opening the windows you already requested that I open. So there!

Then AOL would decide it needed to take a break and go lie down for a while, because of


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