Mozilla Firefox proved how bloated Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had become
The Firefox web browsing software application was the first of web browser that had a setup file of less than ten MB. The Firefox web browsing software application succeeded in doing so simply because of the excellent work put in by the developers during the creation of the programming of the software application.
The advantages offered by the Firefox web browsing software application as a result of its small setup file are many. For starters, downloading the Firefox web browsing software application and installing the same is not a big problem at all. The Internet Explorer web browsing software application cannot be distributed very easily.
Not only are there legal complications involved but there are practical problems as well. The setup file of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application is so big that transferring the file from one computer to another can be quite a problem.
If you happen to lose the setup CD of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application, downloading the same over the internet or obtaining the same from any other source can be a problematic affair.
However, there are absolutely no legal as well as practical problems involved in the distribution of the Firefox web browsing software application. Since the setup file of the Firefox web browsers so small, the same can be transferred from one person to another without the any complications.
The most important consequence of the size of the setup file of the Firefox web browsing software application is that it proved beyond doubt that the Internet Explorer web browsing software application was a bloated software application.
The fact that the Firefox web browsing software application was just one tenth of the setup file of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application while offering as many features as the Internet Explorer web browsing software application raised many uncomfortable questions in the minds of the end users.
Had the Firefox web browsing software application been a very ordinary web browser that offered very few features, the end users could have accepted the huge variation between the sizes of the setup files of the two web browsers would have made sense.
However, as far as features go, the Firefox web browsing software application does not offer fewer features as compared to the Internet Explorer web browsing software application. This is, of course, not considering the Firefox extension feature. If the Firefox extension feature is also considered, the number of features offered by the Firefox web browsing software application is practically unlimited.
The end user can add as many features as he or she wants by making use of the Firefox extension feature. Simply put, even the simplest and the most basic version of the Firefox web browsing software application is an extremely functional version that requires no compromise on the part of the end users as far as productivity and efficiency is concerned.
What then is the reason for the huge variation in the size of the setup file? The only answer that there is a left in contention after considering all the possibilities is that the Internet Explorer web browsing software application is not a well made web browser.
It is well known that the Internet Explorer web browsing software application is not just a web browser but is also a component of the Windows operating system. Now, it is not unusual for a component of the operating system to be so large in size.
However, for a component to act as the web browsing software application as well is unprecedented. There are many experts who denounce this unnecessary integration and are critical of Internet Explorer only for this particular reason.
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