Here's an extended commercial for using Mozilla, both as a blogging tool and as your everyday web browser. I use Mozilla at home and generally love it, mostly for the ability to kill unwanted popup windows. There are some links that I refuse to follow when I'm at work using IE because of the barrage of popups that come with them. Frankly, if this were the only advantage to using Mozilla, I'd consider it enough.

Mozilla's tabs are another feature that I love and use heavily. A big win for me with tabs was after I'd imported all of my old Blogspot archives into my new site and had to edit them to add categories and fix backlinks. In the Movable Type window to edit entries, you can't conveniently save changes and then get back to the original window. With Mozilla, I'd choose the Open In New Tab option when clicking on an entry to edit. I'd make my changes, hit Save, and close the tab when done, thus leaving me in the original Edit Entries window, which is where I wanted to be. Similarly, when I come across a link that I might want to blog about later, I just open it in a new tab and it's there for me later without cluttering up my Windows taskbar.

I have two complaints about Mozilla, neither of which is that bothersome. One is that the Movable Type buttons to generate bold/italic/underline/hyperlink tags don't show up for me. I never use those buttons anyway, so this is no loss for me but it might be for you. My other complaint is that on the rare occasion when I have to use ctrl-alt-del to kill a Mozilla session, it kills all of the sessions I have open (I still open multiple Mozilla windows, despite using tabs).

Like I said, neither objection comes close to negating the joys of no popups. I haven't tried to block ad images yet, but that's just laziness on my part. The author describes a bunch of other whizzy features that will surely excite some of you. Check it out, and download Mozilla today.

Thanks to Larry for the link.