With Firefox 0.9:
I click the happy little orange and blue icon. Within five seconds, Firefox is up and running, even on my five-year-old computer. I go to Bookmarks - Bookmarks Toolbar Folder - Open in Tabs. All of my daily websites are open, just like that. On a cable connection, it takes roughly thirty seconds for all twenty of them to load simultaneously. I scan the page open on the first tab, press CTRL+W to close it. One down, on to the next one. Read it. CTRL+W. And so on. I'm finished reading everything in about two minutes.
One of the pages I check daily is CSS Zen Garden, mentioned in the comments above. I look at one of the newest designs. It's beautiful, almost brings a tear to my eye, with transparent menus and clever graphic design.
With IE 6 (WinXP SP2 RC2):
Internet Explorer has been "removed" from my computer, so I hit Windows Key + R to open the Run dialog. I type "iexplore" and hit Enter. Ten seconds passes, the browser is open. The interface is stylish and fits will with the Windows XP theme, but nothing compared to Firefox's changable XUL theming support (I use Smoke ). I go to Favorites and open the first one on the list. I read the page, center click a link. Nothing happens. Oh yeah, no tabs here. I want to come back to this page, so I leave it open and open the next bookmark in a new window. Five seconds later, it has rendered. Badly. This is CSS Zen Garden. Perfectly standards-compliant designs that don't work in IE. I skip this, plan to check it out in Firefox later. I finish the bookmarks, opening each in a new window. To close them, I have to contort my hand crazily in order to press CTRL+F4. Who came up with that combination? Finally, I am back to the page I started reading earlier. I start reading. Uh-oh, a pop-up. Close it. Another one. Close it. CTRL+W, CTRL+W. Wait, that doesn't work. CTRL+F4. Ouch, it burneth.
