Why I have so many browsers

Do I really need more than one browser to use?. Actually, I use Mozilla Firefox for my main browser, but since I have 2 gmail account, I need to open it in separate browser (so I don't have to logout and login for each account). The second browser is also from Mozilla, that is SeaMonkey. I use seamonkey because I need the composer and to pop gmail. I used to pop my mail from Thunderbird, but I think now Seamonkey is enough for me.

The third browser is Opera. I'm using it to open some site that need other google acount too. (for my boyfriend). I almost forget, in the windows there already Internet Explorer, I never use that until my internet banking page only can open in IE. I already ask my bank to improve their program so I don't need IE in the future.

I like mozila browsers, and not feel safe when using IE :(. Anyway, mozilla browsers available for my windows and fedora platform.

Free Download Manager

It's very clear to us from the name of the software, this is a download accelerator and manager and it is absolutely free! Using this software product I can easily download a list of files even my internet speed is not very fast and not reliable.

FDM can resume broken downloads. So I don't have to start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption, this feature is very useful for me. I can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted (this program warns me if resuming isn't supported by the servers)

I just found out that FDM has feature to download the whole web sites from the remote server. I can adjust FDM to download files with the extensions you have specified. I remember those old days when I use 2 different software to do those 2 jobs.

Anyway, FDM only works on Windows.

Software List on Windows (not complete yet)

These are the windows software I installed on my Acer. Since I dated with an open source contributor, I only use freeware or open source software. At first, it feel weird, but now sometimes freeware and open source software a lot better than the proprietary one.

This list not complete yet, i'll update it later

1. Softwares for enjoying the Internet:

• Browser : 3 From Mozilla ( Firefox, Flock and Sea Monkey), Opera Browser and Internet Explorer. Why I need many browsers? Because I have more than 1 account Gmail to open, and I’m too lazy to sign out and sign in everytime I want to read emails. IE is almost never used, and since there’s extension of Firefox to render some pages using IE on Firefox, maybe I’ll never use it anymore J
• Download manager : Free Download Manager, once I used Getright, but since I found FDM say goodbye to Getright. With this software I can split my download file and if the connection getting slow or I want to turn of my computer, I could stop the process and continue later (but some server cannot be continue).
• Instant Messaging : Gaim. I was a chatter, once I installed ICQ, YM and MSN on my old pc, and now with Gaim I can login with a single application. But those days are over, now I only use Gaim for YM only.
• Voice Over IP : Barablu, Skype, Voip Buster. I still don’t decide which one the best, just try it last week, unfortunately my internet speed not very reliable. Sometimes it good, manytimes not good :(
• FTP Clients: Putty

2. Sofwares for Office Productivity

• Text Editor: Emacs beside Notepad, Emacs support highlighting syntax.
• Read PDF : Adobe Acrobat Reader, FoxItReader
• Make PDF Documents : PDFWriter
• Blogging : W.bloggar

3. Software for Entertainment / Multimedia

• Video : VLC beside Windows Media Player
• Music : iTunes, I don’t have ipod yet, but I just prepare to have it anytime soon :) (maybe you want to give me an ipod? :) )
  
• Picasa : To organize my photos
  

4. Antivirus : Avast Home Edition, always updated if I connected to Internet

Avast and W.bloggar already told, the rest will come as soon as possible.

Anti Virus : Avast

Today I can't update my antivirus since the registration date is reached 1 year. I'm using avast for my Acer. I alway update the antiviruses' database regularly. There's two ways to update avast antivirus database, downloaded it separately or update incrementally. When I don't have Interenet Connection from home usually I downloaded it from Campuss. The update come as executable files. The update size getting bigger everyday (since the database getting larger too).
images from www.avast.com
My experience using avast is my Windows-XP never got infected. When there's brontok attack in Indonesia, avast never failed to detect it, so I still saved till now. Well, the best thing from Avast is, it's free for Home Users.

That's it, if u need a free antiviruses and powerfull and easy to update, I'm sure Avast is the one. All you have to do is registered every year (it's not so hard I guess).