Firefox rox

After reading Jon Udell's column about Firefox a few weeks ago, my interest was piqued, but I kept using Safari. Then over the weekend I tried to order tickets for an SF Giants game and when I tried to select "CA" in the State box on the e-commerce form, the drop-down box was all blank. I abandoned my shopping cart and downloaded Firefox to redo my transaction -- the experience was so compelling that I've switched (to switch your default browser in OS X, go to the Preferences menu in Safari and look under the General tab).

The tabbed browsing is a revelation. I had experienced tab browsing with Opera a while back, but it didn't seem particularly compelling back then, probably because I wasn't blogging at the time. Now it makes a huge difference -- all the context-switching that takes place when doing a blog post is not much of a barrier in the tabbed environment. Being able to add search plug-ins in the upper right corner is really nice, too. Google search is the default, but I also added AllMusic.com to my search box. Hundreds more plug-ins are available. Very nice.