Converted to Mozilla February 11, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Internet , trackbackA few months ago I finally followed the crowd to Firefox, and have never looked back. The only downside is that I need to keep IE going for a few sites I use regularly which don’t work under Firefox. Most of these are ones I need for clients, so I won’t mention them here, but RBoS, you really should do something about your appalling clunky business banking site. It’s easy to use, the tabs are great, and the various addins really make the product. Integration with Google and del.icio.us is easy, but the Smile Project does it for me. It may be my imagination, and I’ve no real evidence to support this, but it seems much more stable as well. My only gripe is that I can’t move the toolbars around, and that area does end up rather crowded.
Last week, I decided to abandon outlook as well. This was harder, because I do use the calendar but I’ve found since I’ve been freelance that my client prefers me to use their in-house calendar so I can be seen on their scheduler. For a diary, I’ve reverted to a moleskin, which superbly integrates all known meeting and calendar tools, and gives me a notebook too. It’s a bit slow and clunky, but battery life is infinite and the handwriting recognition very good. Backups are a problem though.
I’ve converted my email to Thunderbird, and so far that’s working perfectly. All my contacts came across, and the inbuilt RSS aggregator is much simpler than using Attensa for Outlook. It runs more quickly, and it was easier to set up multiple accounts and have them in their own folders rather than having to mess around with rules.
So, I’m a convert. Next stop, OpenOffice!
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