Mozilla Firefox
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The Firefox Internet browser is part of the open source Mozilla project which makes it open to thousands of smart programmers all of over the world working around the clock to make it more secure, faster and expand its functionality. It has a global market share of over 20% which is excellent considering the short time since the project started in 2004.
Security is one of the top features of Firefox among other tools including customization.
It has many productivity tools like spell checking, tab browsing/dragging and restoring sessions which make you work better and faster. And by faster, Firefox has high performance, faster page load, faster JavaScript, improved Memory Management and improved graphics engine.
There is also a nice feature in the address tool bar that let you type a firefox-address-bar-featureterm and match it smartly with a website from your browsing history.
And when it comes to bookmarking there is no easier way than how Firefox let you manage all your bookmarks with folders, names & tags.
Firefox focus on privacy and security which is something everyone is concerned about these days. It achieves this by including a bunch of tools like anti-malware warning, parental control settings, integration with your anti-virus software, controlling privacy data, custom security setting, and tons more security and privacy related tools.
Two of the best features you’ll find when using Firefox is customization and add-ons. Because it is an open source project, Firefox attracts thousands of enthusiastic programmers that offer excellent ideas to extend the functionality of the browser and its look and feel. Add-ons are like small softwares that you can use when browsing the web, for instance the add-on foxlingo is a language tool that translates web pages and even help in learning languages.
And when it comes to support, usually open source projects let you do some research to get answers to your questions, but with Firefox browser although it’s completely free, it has a live support chat with real people from the Firefox community that will answer your questions instantly.
Last updated: Friday, January 16, 2009 | 936 Views
