Download manager, Live Bookmarks, Plugins and Pop-up blocking in Firefox
Download manager: In the Mozilla Firefox, there is the support of integrated download manager, which is easily customizable. In Firefox, the download open automatically based on the type of the file and it is directly saved to the disk. In the Firefox web browser, all files of the user are downloaded by default on the desktop of the user on OS like Mac and Windows. It is also downloaded on the home directory of the user on OS like Linux. However, these downloading files may be configured to prompt for a particular download location.
In the Mozilla Firefox, there is no support to cross-session resuming from download manager. This cross-session resuming means stop the downloading process and resume it after shutting down the web browser. In addition, the download manager of the Mozilla Firefox does not succeed in closing if small files that are downloaded are already in cache.
The Firefox user is benefited by the advantage of the download manager like full source URL. So by using the download manager, the full source view of URL can be seen. The destination path of the file that is being downloaded through Properties box can be seen by the user by using the download manager. On other hand, the web browser like Internet Explorer is able to view only name of the file and its source domain name.
Live Bookmarks: By using this feature like Live Bookmarking, the Firefox user can monitor the dynamic changes in his favorite news sources. This feature is powered by Atom feeds or RSS. This feature was firstly introduced in the Firefox version 1.0PR. Firstly, there was a worried feeling among the Mozilla community that this feature will mainly deal with non-useful web browsing features. However, these unnecessary changes could not bloat the Firefox browser like Mozilla Suite.
In the Live Bookmarks feature of the Mozilla Firefox, the RSS feeds are treated as the bookmarks and that are updated in the real-time with suitable source link. Therefore, it is really contrast to the news aggregators, which treats the RSS-feeds as HTML pages. In the Firefox, there is an automatic updating of the Live bookmarks.
Among the web browsing features of the Mozilla Firefox, add-ons is recognized as the popular trait of Firefox which makes the web browser personalize, secure and faster. In Firefox, the user is benefited with 3 types of add-ons. These add-ons are extensions, themes and plugins.
On the official site of the Mozilla Firefox, a user can browse these above-mentioned add-ons according to browsing category. These add-ons are categorized into popular and updated add-ons, which are updated recently. The add-ons like extensions provide extra web browsing functionality to Firefox, themes give enhanced browser look to Firefox and plugins are used to see the added web content in the browser.
Plugins add-on in Firefox: In Mozilla Firefox, the add-ons like Plugins assist to carry out some special functions like to view special graphic formats, play files based on multimedia. The main intention of the plugins is to transform or put in changes to current functionality of the browser. On the official site of the Firefox, we can see various types of plugins like Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Java, Quicktime, Shockwave ands many more.
Pop-up blocking: Firefox supports integrated pop-up blocking which is customizable. In the early Beta release version of the Mozilla Firefox, this feature was introduced. Because of this pop-up blocking function, there was a high increase in the selling point of Firefox browser until Internet Explorer expanded the potential in the OS like Windows XP Service Pack 2 beta.
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