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Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is quite literally the next generation browser than has become quite popular in the recent years. Firefox is developed and promoted by Mozilla as its flagship browser for both Linux as well as windows platforms. The latest version of Firefox is Firefox 2 which claims to be faster than the pervious versions of the browser, it is definitely more secure than the internet explorer as well as more customizable as compared to Internet Explorer.

Lets see some of the features of Firefox which makes it the browser of the future and why it gives such a though competition to the market leader in the browser sector “ The Internet Explorer”

• Super Fast Page Loading: Firefox definitely loads pages much faster than the internet explorer and the most distinguished quality of this browser is that it is so transparent. Everything that it does is displayed in the status bar where as internet explorer has just the basic and very fundamental things displayed keeping the main things to itself. What this means is that with firefox you know when you are being redirected, when you are connecting to another proxy.
• Secure Web Browsing: Firefox definitely offers more security when it comes to surfing the internet because unlike internet explorer it doesn’t have BHO(Browser Helper Objects) which are often used by spywares and adwares to detect users surfing patterns and even worse to invoke RPC( Remote Procedure Calls). Firefox developers have also invested some quality programming time in checking the popup menace that is eminent on the internet. Firefox blocks out 99% of all the popups which are the reasons of viruses and irritating advertisements over the internet.
• Extremely Customizable: With firefox you can customize just about everything from addons to default search engines to themes. Firefox comes with a built in Addon and Themes Manager to manage, install, uninstall, enable and disable themes and add ons. You can choose from over 1000 add ons for firefox from their website which are made for each and every type of user, from a developer, to a webmaster to an investment banker to a CEO.

One of the distinguishing and the silent feature of the firefox is its ability to detected phising and to warn users about it which no other browser can along with an excellent automatic update routine so that the users need not worry about update at all. The best thing is of all, all these and many more features come for FREE; cause its open source.

So, if you haven’t switched on the Firefox please do so, for a better internet experience and for a safe and secure internet usage.

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