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Computer's Tip's and How-To'sSwitching to Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is attracting huge attention due to its good webpage rendering engine, security, and handy features. It is also easy to personalise with extensions and themes.
* Very Standards compliant - Based on Gecko engine.
* Tabbed browsing, one-click-downloading and integrated Google search all standard.
* Open source
* Very secure
* Extensions - Countless add on features can be downloaded
* Themes - You can personalise your Firefox by downloading themes
* Easy to use and intuitive
* Good accessibility
The reasons why you should switch over to Firefox browser.
1) Standards compliance. If you don't design/maintain websites, then this means nothing to you. If you do, it means everything.
2) Tabbed-browsing. IE doesn't have it.
3) Popup blocking. Windows XP users who have SP2 now have it, but what about Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000?
4) Security. Firefox will not give a malicious site the ability to run arbitrary code. IE shouldn't, but who knows? It's been exploited numerous times.
5) Extensions/Themes. There are so many extensions and themes whose functionality is not duplicated on IE, it's rediculous to try to count them. IE has no native theme support.
6) Performance. Firefox easily out-performs IE in general page rendering time on old and new hardware and interprets JavaScript much faster.
7) Privacy. Browsing history, cookies, and cache data are only stored in one place by Firefox, and when you ask Firefox to delete those files it deletes them! IE/Windows maintains your entire history and typed-urls in system-level hidden files that aren't deleted when you ask to delete them. You can't even browse to those files in Explorer.
8) Cross-platform Firefox is compiled and tested for many hardware/OS platforms, whereas IE only works with Windows x86 machines and Apple machines running Mac OS.
9) Community-driven. Firefox is distributed by a community of developers/testers/users who take input from each other and from the current browser market. This means Firefox is always up-to-date with features that the users want. IE hasn't had a major release in something like 7 years, and is distributed commercially with only limited user feedback.
10) It's the underdog. Firefox is an underdog in the new browser wars that are beginning to emerge because of Microsoft's laziness. I just like to root for the underdog, especially when it's as awesome as the Fox.
11) The download's are easy becuse you can put the download program's and bookmark's off the internet into my documents folder with the installer icon so it will be easer to find. Also it makes it so ease to burn to on the CD install the program quicker.
12) No ActiveX controller=no code being executed from you simply being on a webpage.
13) IE = hackers paradise.
14) The tons of extensions, like Adblock, Gmail Composer, Google Preview, etc.
15) Multiple search engines. IE can't even do this without extra third party toolbars.
16) Much harder to get spyware and other stuff making your Windows install unstable, since there's no ActiveX problems, and because Firefox is a smaller target for hackers than IE.