July 2, 2003 09:36 PM

Until Mozilla Firebird was released, I'd always used Internet Explorer. And why not? It came pre-installed, and it did what I wanted. I occasionally looked at the alternative - Netscape - but its excess baggage (mail client, newsreader etc) annoyed me, in the same way that "do you want fries with that?" does.

Then Tim pointed me at Mozilla FireBird. (It was called Phoenix until a certain BIOS manufacturer released its pack of winged monkeys and forced the name change).

I was hooked - it had everything I'd wanted from a browser -- tabs, so I could surf without filling my task bar with windows; automatic pop-up stopping a nd banner-ad blocking. Cookie and password management. And best of all, a search bar that not only worked, but was customisable with plugins. Adios, IE!

So, if you're running Mozilla, and fancy h2g2 in your search bar, feel free to install the h2g2 Mozilla Mycroft Plugin. It sits politely with all the other Mozilla search plugins, allowing you to quickly search your favourite information repositories:

Comments, suggestions, etc? Let me know here.

oh, and ... here's my Amazon plugin.

And UKNova ... UKNova plugin