Firefox’s extended Features
You can save your favorite sites as bookmarks. In the smart bookmarks folder, you can save the most important sites, i.e. the ones that you require often. Firefox also takes care of your security and privacy and therefore has the features like Instant Web ID, Anti-Malware, Anti-Phishing, and Parental Controls.
Bookmarks in Firefox
Just click twice on that website to manage it. You can choose where you want it to be saved and you can tag it as well. You can arrange all your bookmarked sites systematically in folders. Moreover, in these folders, you can arrange them according to particular themes like “job search”, “online shopping” etc. Thus searching for any website among your bookmarks becomes very easy.
The next time, during searching for the website, which you have bookmarked, just enter the tag and you will get the bookmarked website’s name in the location bar in a flash. As you go on using the system, Firefox will go on adapting to your preferences.
Smart Bookmark Folder
These are the dynamic folders, which you can use for accessing your favorite sites. You can place these folders right on the bookmarks toolbar or the bookmarks menu. Firefox has included some of these folders as defaults. One such default folder is the folder that stores the most frequently visited sites. You can create additional folders for storing different types of websites.
Creating these smart folders is easy. You can do it by saving your searches in the library.
Security and privacy while using Firefox
Instant Web Site ID
Firefox is the best web browser available today, in terms of security. It has many features, which are unique and not found in other web browsers. Many times, you are not too sure about the legitimacy of a site, which you want to go to. However, with Firefox you can know about this as well. For this, you just have to click on the ‘site favicon’ and you will be provided its identity overview, instantaneously.
If you are not satisfied, and want more information, just click once again. This time Firefox will dig a little deeper. It will provide you the number of times you have visited that site. It will also tell you whether your passwords will be saved by this site or not. Moreover, Firefox also checks the sites susceptibility, web forgeries, and genuineness as well.
Anti-Malware
Firefox version 3, also offers protection from viruses, Trojan horses, worms and spyware as well. If you by mistake, access an attack site, Firefox will display a full sized message containing warning. It maintains a list of attack sites, which is updated frequently. From this list, it knows when you should browsing should be stopped. Therefore, there is no need for you to update or maintain it.
Anti-Phishing
Internet users are prone to Phishing while using the internet especially during online shopping or business. However, while browsing the internet with Firefox, you can be relaxed. Firefox receives a fresh update of web forgery sites for a much as 48 times a day. Therefore if you attempt to visit a fraudulent website that is pretending to be a site which you trust, for example a bank or online store, it will provide you a large message and thus it will stop you from doing so.
Parental Controls
With Mozilla Firefox, you can enforce parental control settings that you have done on Windows Vista. Firefox version 3, will stop the downloads and other stuff which you do not want. Thus, you can keep away your children from the things, which you think can spoil them. To add to it the new intuitive design of Firefox will keep you away from second-guessing your setup.
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