Circadian Shift

Over at Blamblog, Brett has been exhorting (to put it mildly) his readers to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer. The ensuing comment thread noted that, when one websurfs at work -- almost invariably on a PC running Windoze -- one doesn't always have the option of using an alternate browser.

Or do they? I responded:

If your user settings don't allow you to 'install' software on your workplace PC, you can still use the ZIPped version of Firefox, available here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.1/

Addendum 30 July 2004: You can now find version 0.9.2 at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/

Addendum 12 August 2004: Whatever the latest release of Firefox is, find it here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Just unzip the contents into a directory on your hard drive, and you can run it from there.

Should you require a ZIP program, may I suggest 100K_Zipper. It doesn't handle any kind of compressed file other than ZIP, but it does benefit from not requiring installation. Find it here:

http://www.quickzip.org/quickzip/information.php

Heck, even my Mom and Dad have made the switch to Mozilla (albeit, at the insistence of my brother and I, who serve as de facto tech support to the parental household). After all, there are many things that Mozilla can do which IE cannot.

On my main desktop PC here, chez Hovel, I use Opera, which works just fine for me on Win98SE. However, I've had less luck with Opera on my notebook PC, which runs WinME. (The "ME", I believe, stands for "Multiple Expletives", which is what it usually drives me to using, thanks its overall crappiness.) So on my notebook, I use Firefox.