Firefox – The Browser, Reloaded OK, I just found out that there are good browsers out there besides Internet Explorer that you can download for free! I downloaded Mozilla Firefox, which is an awesome browser. It’s fast, easy, and secure. Since there are fewer people using this browser, you become less of a highjack target for hackers. I should have known it would be good: it’s open-source software. I’m all about open-source these days. After I got Firefox, I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird, and my e-mail life is changed. No more of those nasty errors I always got when I ran Microsoft Outlook. But my biggest recent discovery with open-source is OpenOffice.org. It’s an open-source free alternative to Microsoft Office, and I love it! The text-editing program isn’t always trying to re-install itself like Microsoft Word did. And the spreadsheet is at least as powerful as Microsoft Excel, if not more. All these apps run cleanly, simply, and efficiently. They’re easy to use, and they’re 100% free. It used to be that you had to be a developer to join the open-source movement, but not anymore. These apps are simple to use and straightforward to install. Open-source for the masses!