“The browsers clashed, and so Netscape was smited by Internet
Explorer , and the progeny of Microsoft reigned over the land. But
lo, for Netscape had a brother, and that brother
was named Mozilla. And Mozilla begat the
mighty Firefox , and Internet Explorer trem-
bled in fear.”
If there were an Internet Bible, this would be the
latest passage in the Book of Browsers. Netscape
and its Mozilla offshoot have long been
regarded as the ugly cousins of Internet
Explorer ever since Microsoft won
the browser war of the 1990s. Open
source coders working
on Mozilla never quite
gave up, though, and
they ultimately cre-
ated a full-featured,
immensely expandable
web browser that quite
simply kicks ass.
A longtime favor-
ite of the Maximum
PC staff—we namedFirefox , Mozilla’s next-generation browser, is far
more powerful than Internet Explorer. Maximum PC
presents 13 ways to make it even better. Your web
browsing will never be the same after you use this
collection of upgrades, tweaks, and hacks!By E. Will Greenwald