IS MOZILLA FIREFOX BETTER THAN IE.IF YES, WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES IN CHOOSING FIREFOX
Fire fox 2.0 is an award winning web browser from Mozilla. It is an open source software, which has more features for modified web page customizing. It also helps you to be more creative while surfing on the net. It is much faster, more secure and easier to use.
Due to its openness many developers and programmers from all over work round the clock to improve the features of the browser so that it offers its users a better web browsing experience. And all this is done for free.
Fire fox 2.0 has improved tabbed browsing. Here you can open new web pages in tabs by default. Even if you happen to close a tab accidentally going to History menu and clicking “Recently Closed Files†can recover the unchanged file.
The sessions Restore feature helps you to restore the lost web page incase of any problem. You can continue exactly from where you last left off. Here no reloading of the webpage takes place.
Spell check is another feature, which is inbuilt. It helps to automatically spell check our work when we are in a rush.
Integrated Search: Using the search bar, all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com and Creative commons etc can be used to look for results. New search engines can also be added.
Regular updates by the firefox community make sure you are always protected from viruses and spyware programs from attacking your system. The quick tabs feature helps to find the site you want or helps close the one you are not interested in viewing.
Search Box: this gives quick, comprehensive and customized web searching. The results are displayed on a separate tab hence you can compare easily. This way you wont lose the site you are already viewing.
Security in IE7: Security is of utmost importance to any web user. A surfer does not know whether he is going to the correct site. To make things easier IE offers security badges which helps to distinguish the genuine sites from the suspicious ones. Like the certificates, which are provided, these too help in banking and while shopping on the net so that you don’t get tricked into parting with your money. All these updated features in both the versions of Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 have really made the war between the two giants hot.
Another area the open source development movement has brought about, is API's or application programming interfaces. They allow a developer to access data; they would otherwise not be able to access. The fact of the matter is that APIs are changing the way businesses research and implement new features by allowing them to connect with their users while at the same time conducting free research & development.
When a developer writes a piece of code for Firefox it's known as an extension. Currently there are 178 and the list is growing all the time. They save time and money by condensing everything which before could only be got from various web sites and software.
Firefox has generated incredible brand loyalty by allowing a common person to contribute extensions to its growth as a browser. But it's also building the type of loyalty you can't buy. This is something Microsoft may never been able to accomplish with its current business.
Mozilla extended this grass roots approach about getting users involved down to the development of the Firefox Logo.
Mozilla is making lives easier by allowing us to use Firefox as much more than just a web browser. It's a validator, backlink checker, web developer tool wizard and more. This saves time and with tight schedules it’s a huge advantage over IE.
Extensions are easily downloadable and the Mozilla Firefox is taking advantage of the API wave and open source wave hitting the internet today.
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