Andy in Sig said:
This is one of those threads that I haven't got the tiniest chance of understanding. I use firefox and it works i.e. I can click on websites and they come up. I now have the impression that it can do more. Are there idiot proof instructions in plain English to be had anywhere?
Also what is an Ubuntu? It sounds a bit African and the sort of thing you might shoot to have for dinner after a hard day in the bush.
Firefox is pretty famous for it's add-ons like the ability to run itunes within the browser, or search flickr or other stuff. But you don't need most of them. I use firefox 'as is' most of the time. Firefox 3 is, I'm finding, a lot faster than 2 and less likely to crash (which it did a lot of on my mac).
Ubuntu is a version of the Linux operating system (say, in graphical terms, a very rough equivalent of Windows XP) and is, you could say, a fair amount more user friendly than some previous versions. Linux has a lot of supporters and is supposed to be a very good thing. But it requires a little techie knowledge as some programs and computer games need a little tinkering to install properly rather than mostly being 'plug and play' like windows and mac OS.
