Mozilla Firefox has justified the faith of its end users by protecting them from viruses and Trojans!!
There is no doubt that the World Wide Web is full of undesirable web sites and undesirable web pages. The onus is upon the end user of the web browsing software application to avoid visiting such web sites and web pages that may cause harm to the computer of the end user. However, there is always the possibility of the end user of the web browsing software application being forced to visit a web page that he or she does not want to and which may be undesirable and harmful to his or her computer. In such a scenario, it is expected that the web browsing software application incorporate sufficient security features to protect of the web page from attacking the computer of the end user. One of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer’s biggest failures has been the fact that it does not been successful in securing the computer of the end user. As far as web browsing software applications go, the performance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was considered to be satisfactory until the Firefox web browsing software application came along. However, the security measures incorporated into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had always been a point of a complaint. The end users of the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application were always afraid of the fact that their computer may be infected by a virus or Trojan because of the fact that the security measures in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was not up to the mark. Further, the fact that the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application had been integrated with the Windows operating system implied that any infection in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application would automatically result in the infection of the Windows operating system as well. These and many other security concerns were the primary reason why the end users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer were very glad when the Firefox web browsing software applications came along. The Firefox web browsing software application enjoyed the confidence of the end users as far as security matters was concerned because the web browsing software application was no nonsense web browser that avoided all unnecessary features. The Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application suffered a lot from its integration with the Windows operating system. The end users of the web browsing software applications quickly realized that they did not stand to gain from the fact that the web browsing software application was integrated with the operating system. However, this feature which did not to help them gain a lot became a headache as far as security was concerned. The end users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software applications easily realized that the integration was a completely unnecessary feature as far as the end user experience was concerned. This made them very wary of unnecessary features incorporated into software applications that interacted with the World Wide Web.
The Firefox web browsing software application was an extremely lightweight web browsing software application simply because of the fact that it removed all features that it considered unnecessary for the end users. The approach of the developers would have been an arrogant one had it not been for the fact that the Firefox extension feature was offered and the end users were given the option of incorporating all those features into the Firefox web browsing software application that they wanted. This resulted in the end users of the web browsing software application having a lot of confidence on the security measures of the web browser. Today, the Firefox web browsing software application has justified the confidence placed by its end users. And it seems it would do so in the future as well.
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