Ever wondered what made the developers of Mozilla Firefox work so hard to create the web browser??
Many a times, it becomes difficult for the end user of the Firefox web browsing software application to understand the motivation that drove the developers of the Firefox web browser. In case of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or any other web browsing software application, the motivation is obvious. The primary purpose of all other web browsing software applications is to earn money. However, in case of the Firefox web browser, the motivation of the developers could hardly be the desire to make lots of money through the Firefox web browser. Had that been the case, the developers would not have announced that the Firefox web browsing software application is free to download, free to use and free to modify. That is not the way the developers of any software application work if they want to earn lots of money from the software application. Hence, one can confidently strike out money- making as a motivational factor behind the development of the Firefox web browsing software application. Then, what motivations are we left with?
For starters, the first factor that motivated the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application to actually develop such a web browser is the fact that there was no web browsing software application available on the internet that catered to the requirements of the end users. While developers of the software applications always desire to earn lots of money, the end user of the software application always desire to make productive use of the software application. Since it is the end users who pay money to the developers, the developers cater to the requirements of the end users. However, this simple cycle had been the tampered with in case of web browsing software applications. For some strange reason, the most dominant web browsing software application was the one that was least bothered about the requirements of the end users. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had concluded that the previous version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was good enough for all the end users of web browsing software applications. In fact, they had concluded that the previous version ought to be good enough to all the end users and any person who found that the web browsing software application did not match his requirements was expected to alter his expectations accordingly.
The end result was that there were many end users of web browsing software applications who were dissatisfied with the web browsing software application they were using. The developers of the Firefox web browser saw the dissatisfaction and decided to do something about it. They decided to create the Firefox web browsing software application to enable the end users overcome a problem that seemed to be insurmountable. The Firefox web browsing software application is just a standalone web browser and not our part of a group of web related software applications. Hence, if you download the Firefox web browsing software application, all you will get is a web browsing software application. You will not get a messenger, you will not get a mail client, you will not get an IRC client and you will not get a webpage developing software application. Hence, if all you want to do is surf the web and if you have software applications to cater to other requirements, only then should you go ahead and make use of the Firefox web browsing software application.
The biggest point of distinction between the Firefox web browsing software application and owner web browsing software is the fact that the Firefox web browser was created with a conscious intention of enhancing the web browsing experience of the end user. This is something that is not present in all other web browsing software applications.
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