11-20-2005, 04:55 AM
Firefox is a browser, it just loads and displays things it gets from your internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browsers
"A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system." That is, it is a program that loads files from a server (the website) using the internet connection from your ISP. Changing your browser will have no effect on your ISP, you need to actually call them, cancel, and sign up with someone else to do that. The closest analogy I can think of it is like a flashlight: The flashlight shell is like the browser, it can look different but almost all of its brightness (or download speed) is controlled by the batteries, which would be your ISP.
As for changing your ISP, look at some of these links:
SBC
DSL Reports
Road Runner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browsers
"A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system." That is, it is a program that loads files from a server (the website) using the internet connection from your ISP. Changing your browser will have no effect on your ISP, you need to actually call them, cancel, and sign up with someone else to do that. The closest analogy I can think of it is like a flashlight: The flashlight shell is like the browser, it can look different but almost all of its brightness (or download speed) is controlled by the batteries, which would be your ISP.
As for changing your ISP, look at some of these links:
SBC
DSL Reports
Road Runner