How well designed is Firefox?Designed to add fire to your search!!
For the internet user surfing the world wide web using firefox browser just gets easy and Hassle free. Internet browsers like Internet explorer and Netscape navigator have their own limitations and restricted features, but with Mozilla Firefox you have the ultimate Tool for web surfing. Firefox’s best design for web surfing is its user-friendly features and customizability to the user’s needs. The Firefox browser is compatible with many operating systems like Windows, Linux, Mac OS x and almost all versions of windows. Besides being a cross platform browser the Firefox is easily downloadable and it’s free! Now isn’t that reason enough to have the firefox on your OS. There have been more 200 Million downloads, as on 31st July 2006, now it’s your turn for downloading.
The very design of firefox makes it so popular with Internet users, its features are
1. Tabbed browsing
2. Pop up blocking
3.Add ons
4. Download manager
5. Security
6. The support for Web technologies
The tabbed browsing in the firefox’s design makes the user able to have different pages in the same window. Firefox’s design supports the customizable pop up blocking feature in which the annoying pop ups can be blocked and can be allowed on the screen during surfing. The download manager in firefox supports the automatic opening of the download file or it the user can save it on the disc. The download manager in firefox makes it possible to know the source of the downloads through the properties box. Firefox offers three kinds of Add-ons like themes, plugins, and extensions. By having installed extensions the user can have additional features for the firefox, the extensions in firefox gives different types of functions like changing the mouse’s appearance, blocking and unwanted advertisements.
The most important thing while surfing the web is security, the data on your computer should not be stolen or misused by any software on the net. The security features of firefox are sandbox security model, same origin policy, master passwords, detectors for phishing and others. Since firefox is open source the code is for anyone for cross checking, if you can notice any bug in the system the Mozilla foundation will pay you $500. The Secunia report says that there are only 4 security drawbacks in firefox as against 18 in IE. The US’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team has praised the security design of firefox, whereas IE’s design itself makes it difficult for security.
Firefox’s design is done in such a way that it is compatible with every web standard like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SVG, XSL and others.
Besides supporting different web scripting languages firefox has what is called as Incremental Find, in which the user uses the / key for the function. In this function as soon as the user types the query for his search firefox starts the search, and if there is no matching search results the find box goes red. Firefox has in built search functions for Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo and other popular searches.
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