You may well be wondering why – it’s because the EU in their infinite lack of wisdom spent millions of Euros deciding that the evil Microsoft should offer a range of browsers to Windows users, despite the fact that all the alternative browsers are easily available to download and free.

Anyway, all this will do is confuse a lot of people, allow unsavoury companies and individuals to design similar looking screens in order to fool people into installing dangerous spyware and cause havoc for IT support staff as they receive a deluge of calls from bemused users.

Any questions, as always, feel free to contact me

Simply follow the installation instructions for your favourite browser and you’ll have a nice clean Facebook with all the basic functions and none of the rubbish.

Firefox 3.6 is out and brings a number of improvements over 3.5, most noticeably speed!

It’s much quicker, and instead of those nice but clunky themes you can use the excellent new Personas to brighten up your browser.

With full-screen video support and inbuilt reminder when your plug-ins need updating it’s a major improvement on 3.5.

Don’t delay, download today – http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/ .

It will aim to use its browser to target more advertising, gather even more information about your browsing habits (which it happily turns over to the U.S government) and try to tempt you away from using Microsoft desktop office applications to its own growing armoury of web-based products.

Chrome is certainly very fast -outperforming Firefox and Safari, the two next fastest browsers, but Firefox’s add-ons and themes make it by far and away the number one choice.

Adding a bookmark is now as simple as clicking the empty star in the address bar. Click the star again – which turns yellow to indicate a bookmarked page – and you’re presented with a new option to add tags. You can add as many comma-separated tags as necessary to each of your bookmarks.

The new system proves its worth when you come to find your bookmarks. Tags can now be typed directly into the location bar (nicknamed the “Awesome bar”) so that when you type “hotels” for example, all the bookmarks that have been tagged with that word appear in a scrollable, drop-down list.

“The Awesome Bar”  certainly has some impressive features.. as well as finding your tagged bookmarks, enter a word, ‘paros’ for example, and you’ll be presented with a drop-down list of all the sites you’ve previously visited with the word paros in the URL (i.e. www.paros-online.com) or with paros in the site’s title tag (e.g. .Taste of Paros).

The word you’re searching for is highlighted – either in the URL or the name of the site – in the drop-down list, making it easier to find the relevant site at-a-glance.

It’s an excellent way to find sites in your browsing history – far easier than digging through the History sidebar. And, after  using it for a while, the Awesome Bar quickly replaced Google as a way of finding those sites I remembered visiting a few weeks ago, but couldn’t remember the name of.

Behind the scenes, Firefox 3 offers greater security, including blacklisting sites that are known to contain spyware.

To find out more and download Firefox click here.