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Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Presently, Mozilla Firefox is the second most popular web browser in the world, second only to Internet Explorer (IE). To reach such a high just one year after launch speaks volumes for the quality of the product. Firefox currently has at least 9 per cent of the brower 'market' and has started a previously unheard of term, called the 'browser wars'.
Firefox is compatible with most operating systems; they include all editions from Windows 98 to XP, Mac OS X and many Linux systems, like the Red Hat Linux 8.0.
Impressively the requisite hardware configurations for downloading Firefox are very much basic. All you need is an Intel Pentium II or AMD K6 processor. For Macs, you require a PowerPC 604e 266MHz, with 64MB of RAM and 52MB of drive space.
On the whole, Firefox looks very much like IE and even works in a similar mode. However, on close observation, you will definitely be able to find some variations. Prominent among them is the inclusion of an integrated customizable search bar. Firefox’s search bar is better equipment as apart from the customary search engines; here you can also add other sites like Amazon.com, eBay.com and Dictionary.com.
Other features which give Firefox the upper hand comprise the facility to import bookmarks from IE without a speck of difficulty.
Among the most appreciated insertions has to be its tabbed browsing feature. Utilizing this, you can open a number of sites in a single window itself and browse through all of them by clicking on the tabs. Just for your information, Apple Safari and Opera also encompass the tabbed browsing mechanism.
Through the in-built RSS reader, you are permitted to get programmed updates of news or content from sites that you subscribe to in advance courtesy a feature named Live Bookmarks.
Moving onto the security features, here too Firefox takes the cake as it does not recognize VBScript and ActiveX Controls that have managed to exploit loopholes in IE. The absence of ActiveX does come with its compromises though as links on a few sites are not displayed but it isn’t all that big a price to pay for your computer’s safety. To block irritating pop-up ads, there are built-in controls.
Firefox’s handling of secure Web sites is also praiseworthy. While you open a secure site, it highlights the address bar's URL in yellow and shows the Lock icon. You can then click the Lock icon and have a look at the site's security information to make a choice whether you want to continue browsing the site further.
The most recent version i.e. Firefox 1.5 isn’t too dissimilar to the browser’s first upgrade- Firefox 1.0. But it does come with some highly useful enhancements. Firefox 1.5 provides you with the facility to rearrange tabs by drop-and-drag system. Navigation is speedier and overall arrangement of features is also more intuitive. Crucially, extension updates won’t have to be done manually any more. Mozilla will automatically perform the necessary operations when need be by pushing security patches to the browser.
As of now, Firefox is giving IE a real run for its money and, in the future, if it continues to progress at the same rate, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer might well be in big danger of being displaced from the top spot of Internet browsers.
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One definite problem: some sites/files open only with IE clashing with Firefox
Firefox is certainly better than the Microsoft browser but then when the PC interface (Windows, in nearly every case) itself is tuned to respond better when browsing with the IE, there's little you can do. Try opening/downloading some secure files using Firefox, you'll see what I mean.
User Rating : 8 /10  (
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Michael Greene on
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:20:48 GMT
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JL... User Rating : 1 /10
If you agree firefox is better than IE why rate it as 1 out of 10 or was that a mistake? :-)
Mikee..
User Rating : 5 /10  (
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mikee on
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:01:42 GMT
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IE isn't better..
"firefox v/s Internet explorer
Guys I rate this as 50 - 50 reason being I think internet explorer is still better than firefox"
IE isn't better than Firefox at anything. You are a complete idiot if you misguide ppl in that way. That's not an opinion - it's a fact.
User Rating : 1 /10  (
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JL on
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:29:06 GMT
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firefox v/s Internet explorer
Guys I rate this as 50 - 50 reason being I think internet explorer is still better than firefox, firefox is secure after (having disabled most of the features that internet explorer provides). Internet explorer can also become as secure as firefox if it offer just exactly what firefox provides.. I am just waiting for tabbed enabled browsing in the new internet explorer. But I still think internet explorer is much better.
User Rating : 5 /10 (
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mikee on
Sat, 03 Dec 2005 06:02:33 GMT
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I like firefox
I like this browser, its much better than ie. But did find some problems like it does crash sometime ( well not often as ie :-) ) but I think firfox guys would come up with more updates and solve the problem.
User Rating : 9 /10  (
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Jim on
Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:59:02 GMT
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- 60% 
