Reasons to switch to Firefox
Tabbed Browsing: Makes your surfing faster
Tabbed browsing will change the way you surf the Web. With this feature, you can open different links on the same window. Tabbed browsing helps to keep a track of several web pages at once. You can also open several sites in one browser window. Navigating between tabs is extremely simple. You have just click on the tab and view the page.
Tab loading is always done in the background, thereby making your browsing faster. So even if you open several sites, you will be able to stay organized. To use this feature, you have to hold Ctrl button and click on the web link. The other option to use this feature is to click on the middle mouse button. Tabbed browsing ensures that your searching process is faster and efficient. To read a particular web page, you have to just switch between tabs and not between windows
While you are browsing a particular web page, links that you open in background tabs load, so by the time you get ready to read web pages, loading is already finished. Though tabbed browsing is a simple idea, it can be a great enhancement to your web browsing. With Firefox, comes the simplest version of tabbed browsing.
Popup Blocking:
Firefox stops those annoying popup windows in their tracks. That means, whenever you open a window with Firefox, you will never see those popup windows. Experience the internet as it was made: accessible, convenient and peaceful. But there are websites that make proper use of those windows.
So whenever Firefox blocks any popup window, an icon is displayed in the status bar. When you click on this icon, it will show a breakup of popup windows that were stopped by Firefox when loading current web page. If you want, you can allow some of popups to be displayed.
Find Stuff Easier:
When you access the Web, a lot of time goes in looking for things. But with Firefox, there is no issue, as it has the best built in search functions. When you press Ctrl +K, you will go to Google bar. Just enter the topic you are searching and hit Enter button to use the Google search engine.
Firefox's amazing collection of useful smart keywords will enable you to look words in dictionary easily. Just check the stock quotes to make things easier. Type the keyword and then the word in location bar and simply press enter. A complete list of Smart keywords supported by Firefox is available here. If you find that they are not enough, you can always create your own.
Each and every part of browser has been engineered keeping the search in mind. Consider the tab browsing feature that allows searching in one tab, then open search results in the background tab. You can do searching in different tabs then switch between them in order to compare the results. History and Bookmarks have QuickFind bars which help you to locate a bookmark quickly. Firefox's context menus come in handy, when you want to search selected text instantly.
Simplified Privacy:
Your privacy is extremely important. Firefox allows you to keep a track of the sites you have visited, files and cookies that you have downloaded and so on. If you don't want anyone else to know about the websites that you have visited, you can always clear these things by choosing tools options from privacy panel. In case, you are using a shared or a public computer, still you can clear the stored data with a single mouse click. It is that simple. Besides, preventing popup windows, it also has the ability to stop other actions that annoy you such as the status bar tricks.
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