IS MOZILLA FIREFOX BETTER THAN IE.IF SO WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES IN CHOOSING FIREFOX 2.0
There are a number of advantages of choosing Firefox 2.0 over the traditional Internet Explorer.
Let us go through what the Firefox Company is going to deliver for their users in their forthcoming major release: Firefox 2.0 . We ask the question: will it be enough to make noteworthy ground on IE?
In just a few years, Firefox has taken the previously inactive browser market by storm and woken the sleeping giant Microsoft. The Mozilla Firefox brand is also making an impact, thanks in part to the Spread Firefox campaign . For example, last year Firefox was voted the #7 global brands by brandchannel.com. But the question is still up in the air: will Firefox ever get close to Internet Explorer's market share?
A recent post about IE7 on Tec Crunch generated a lot of comments complaining about the lack of innovation in the Microsoft creation. But despite major improvements, IE7 looks like a Firefox aspirant.
So one would expect that Firefox has a chance to further cut down IE's lead in the browser market, by introducing further modernization and ongoing improvements.
There are a lot of user interface improvements which are noteworthy.
The first thing that stands out in the new Firefox is the more modern, snappier look and feel. Everything is more shinny, more playful and more clickable.
Tabbed browsing was a major browser improvement that Firefox popularized - and in version 2.0 there are further improvements to this. By default, the links now open in a new tab instead of a new window and each tab has its own close button. There is also a new handy way of switching between the tabs, via a pull down list of all open tabs.
All these improvements are subtle, but good productivity boosters for the user.
The search improvement is another feature which will be useful for the user. Search is probably the most fundamental thing we do online and Firefox excels at integrating search engines in a very neat way. With this new release, Firefox adds the search completion mechanism, which works just like Google complete. As soon as the user starts typing, potential search phrases show up.
This feature has been also added to the Firefox search engine format , allowing each search engine to support it.
Other notable improvements are the enhanced security and localization support for extensions, fixed memory leaks and improved performance, built-in phishing protection which warns the user of suspicious sites, persistent sessions which restore the session after system restart, smart spell check for web forms, live titles and micro summaries which help sites convey the latest interesting content and the improved add-on manager which helps the users manage extensions and themes.
It might not seem like Firefox 2.0 has a lot of new features, but we think it is a solid release. The team's focus on performance, stability, usability and security clearly results in a better, faster product - and users will be satisfied with that.
However it is also clear that Firefox needs to do more modernization and web incorporation in order to gain bigger market share. In future we hope to see better bookmarks, better history, a built-in RSS Reader, more productivity features and smarter web integrations. Perhaps with advanced functionality like this, Firefox would make significant ground on IE.
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