Firefox’s advantages over Internet Explorer
Firefox is the more secure, faster, and fully customizable Web Browser and a new way to surf the web. We have been using Internet Explorer (IE) right from the start without trying anything else. Firefox was initially associated with bad famed Netscape Navigator which added to reluctance in trying something else than IE. Here are few advantages of Firefox.
A quick and easy way to get to the sites you want—even without knowing the address you vaguely remember. Type it in as you remember it into location bar (that is the Awesome Bar) and the auto complete function which is a fantastic function in all respects, searches for possible matching from your browsing history till date, as well as sites you have tagged and bookmarked in a Firefox drop down.
For example, you could enter the tag: “cricket” to find “www.rediff.com”. The awesome Bar remembers that you used it some time, it adapts as per your preferences and offers best fitting matches. Latest enhancements for Firefox, which is 3.5 gives you best control over the location bar (Awesome Bar), including privacy settings.
This will make your browser as quick and efficient as you can imagine. Your browsing history until date (all the websites you have seen) and your bookmarks (all favorite websites that you have saved) are saved as archives in the Library. These sites are easily organized and searched from here. You can save your searches in dynamic folders here that are automatically updated as your bookmark list and history keeps on growing.
Label a site with categories or names that mean something to you. Just for the sake of example, you can label particular site www.rediff.com with the “latest news” tag and the “investments” tag at the same time, plus assign www.bbc.co.in the “latest news” tag, too. When you enter “latest news” into the awesome Bar, both sites will be shown as “latest news” results. A single site can have multiple tags, and there is absolutely no limit to the number of tags that you can create. You may not remember the exact address or name of a site, but with a given tag, you will be able to find it in any way that makes sense to you.
You can easily manage your bookmarks. One click on star icon, placed at the end of the Awesome Bar, bookmarks the current site. Two clicks on it and you can choose whether to tag it and where to save it. Bookmarked sites in easy to access folders. Bookmarks organize according to title or theme (like “latest new” or “investment”). You can find your bookmarked sites in an instance by entering the page, tag or bookmark name into the awesome Bar. The more and more you use your bookmark names and tags in the awesome Bar, the system will adapt nicely to your preferences. You can find things quickly with Smart Bookmarks. Click on the Bookmarks menu for fast access to sites organized by recently bookmarked, most visited and recently tagged.
These are very few advantages which are very obvious. There are certain advantages such as feel, look and user friendly handling, which are not expressible in words. After all, Firefox is for the people, by the people. No one can deny its importance. When you work for yourself, you tend to work harder and smarter. When you know what you want, no one else, but you only can work to get it. When you want to improve anything, you are the one who knows if it’s done properly or not.
This all is true with Firefox. There is still some space for improvement, but results till date are fantastic!
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