Security Options of Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a huge hit since 2004. With such a small marketing budget they have gained a lot of popularity which clearly shows it is powered by people. The organization came up with great ideas to make it successful from forum posts, blog posts and news items where people give their opinions about the software. The organization captured and evaluated these posts in masses. Building communities was also one of focus point of Mozilla Firefox. These communities contributed in every aspect from software development, to extensions, marketing and many things. Forums and communities are organized with visual designs as art is a powerful way of communication. It is general experience of people that the new add-on of browser made web a safer and enjoyable experience for youngsters as well as children and parents.
The cookies are a bit of information placed on your computer for validating your privacy. Theses cookies are used to save the time of user and smoothen your browsing experience. There are several ways to manage these cookies. All the cookie settings are available in Tool on the menu bar. Default setting on Mozilla firefox option lets the websites set the cookie. Safest way is to keep cookies until the firefox browser is closed by user. This way you can smoothly browse and keep your privacy intact. You can go more in detail but following settings should be sufficient.
When you visit any website, it is stored as history on your computer. This will help you remember your favorite websites and can easily access it next time when you want to. However, sometimes you do not want other users to view the same information from your computer. For that Mozilla Firefox provides “Private Browsing” option allows user to browse internet without saving any history. Turn on this setting from Tools- “start Privacy setting” browsing option. When you turn on or turn off this setting it will alert you before making changes to your privacy settings.
When you enter some data in text boxes of web forms, on any web pages, it is stored in cookies and you will see it next time when you enter any data. If you turn the privacy setting on the text will not be saved. No password is filled in automatically on any site though you have saved it previously. Sometimes websites have “remember this” check box, which will save the information in the cookies and whenever you visit the site it will be filled automatically. All this data will be removed from cookies. No temporary internet files are saved in cache until you turn on the privacy browsing.
You may have experienced unwanted advertisement or any other unwanted content flashed while you are working on internet. This content sometime closes the window automatically which we need. You can disable these irritable pop-ups or quiz windows which appear when you are browsing on internet. Go to Tools you will see the last menu item as ‘options’. When you click on options a window appears with seven tabs. Go to content and select the checkbox called ‘block pop-up window’. By enabling this setting you can get rid of pop-up windows. If you have already installed software’s like Pop-Up Stopper, EndPopups or Popup Killer then you don’t need to do the setting. The software will automatically do the necessary setting for you.
If you wish to keep track of websites, which you visit for few days; Firefox will keep the history of the time you specify. By default Mozilla Firefox keeps record of the visited websites for 90 days. You can view your recent downloads if you do the necessary setting. You can turn off this option, if you think it’s not necessary for you and thus save your time.
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