The Firefox web browser cannot help an end user who does not want to help himself!!!
Since the release of the first edition of the Firefox web browsing software application, the developers have consistently refused to allow ActiveX technology to run on the Firefox web browsing software application. The developers of the Firefox web browser acknowledge that the ActiveX technology would make life a lot easier for the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application. However, the simultaneous creation of security flaws and security threats for the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application was simply not acceptable to the developers of the Firefox web browser. If such a dedicated and committed approach of the developers towards security was not sufficient, the end user of the Firefox web browsing software application offers additional security features that can be downloaded and run in the form of Firefox extensions. Today, Firefox extensions can be downloaded from the internet that disable the website from automatically running java script in the Firefox web browsing software application. Today, Firefox extensions can be downloaded and installed to ensure that the website does not fun flash programs and flash advertisements on its own. The Firefox web browsing software application can be configured to block all advertisements in the Firefox browsing software application. The inbuilt popup blocker in the Firefox web browsing software application has become a legendary part of the success story of the Firefox web browsing software application.
It is pertinent to note that in each and every case described above, the end users has the ability to either allow or disallow the Java Script, the flash program, the advertisements or the popup its windows. The developers of the Firefox web browsing software application refuses to make the decision for the end users of the Firefox web browser. Rather, they pass on the decision to the end users so that the decision may be made by a person who is affected the most by the decision. Such an approach helps determine accountability and responsibility. Today, an end user of the Firefox web browsing software application who does not download Firefox extensions to enhance security, who does not make use of the inbuilt security features in the Firefox web browsing software application and who does not make use of add-ons like the McAfee Firefox extension can hardly blame that the Firefox web browsing software application did not do good job in blocking the security threats on the internet.
The Firefox web browsing software applications clearly communicates to all the end users that the Firefox web browser can only assist the end user in keeping the data on his or her computers safe. At the end of the day, the onus is upon the end user of the Firefox web browser. Such an approach would have been unfair and would have been irresponsible but for the fact that the Firefox web browsing software application, after communicating that the Firefox end user is responsible for his security, works very hard to protect the data of the end user of the Firefox web browser. After having clearly communicated that the Firefox web browser alone cannot achieve anything, the Firefox web browser attempts to secure the data of the end user of the Firefox web browsing software application all by itself.
While the responsibility is placed on the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application, at no point of time do the developers of the Firefox web browsing software applications seek to abdicate their responsibility by shifting it onto the end user of the web browser. The end user of the Firefox web browser has been made a partner in the quest for securing the data of the end user.
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