Don’t Forget Your Mouthpiece

Having spent most of the day trying to get a niggly little JavaScript to work for my OU coursework, I must here give thanks to the truly wonderful Mozilla Firefox, without which I would now be a gibbering wreck.

For the un-initiated among you, Firefox is an Internet browser, like Internet Explorer, but better, for so many reasons, the most important of which are:

1. It’s FREE. You can download it here.
2. It’s faster and better-looking than IE.
3. It has a JavaScript Console which points out mistakes in your code (like when you only put 4 close-brackets at the end of a line rather than 5. JavaScript is that fiddly.) This is precisely the device which has saved my sanity today. With IE you basically have to guess where your bugs are.
4. You can get a Web Developer extension which gives you a load of little gadgets for helping you with site design, including a style sheet editor and a colour picker.
5. You can also get a load of other useful widgets including FoxyTunes, which allows you to play your mp3s without having to open iTunes or Napster or whatever. Others include the George W. Bush Idiocy Meter and an egg timer (soft, medium and hard-boiled settings).
6. It’s not by Microsoft, which in itself has numerous benefits:
   • It works properly.
   • It doesn’t have all those stupid “security features” which are in actual fact designed to bludgeon you into only using Microsoft products.
   • It doesn’t add to Bill Gates’s already disgustingly distended bank balance.
7. Did I mention the egg timer?

Anyway, thank you for listening to this blatant Firefox plug. Get it today from www.getfirefox.com.

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