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2006-10-14 05:29:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Good. SO MUCH BETTER THAN INTERNET EXPLORER, TRUST ME. YOU CAN EVEN SKIN THE GUI TO WHAT YOU LIKE!
***A Better Web Experience
Firefox 1.5 has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.
***Faster Browsing
Enjoy quick page loading as you navigate back and forward in a browsing session. Improvements to the engine that powers Firefox deliver more accurate display of complex Web sites, support for new Web standards, and better overall performance.
***Automatic Updates
The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Firefox. Firefox automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed.
***Tabbed Browsing
Use tabbed browsing to open multiple Web pages in a single browser window, and quickly flip back and forth. Drag and drop open tabs to keep related pages together.
***Improved Pop-up Blocking
Firefox’s built-in pop-up blocker has been enhanced to block more unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads.
***Integrated Search
Tap into the power of the Web’s most popular search engines with the built-in Search bar, and easily add new engines.
***Stronger Security
Firefox keeps you more secure when you’re browsing the Web, closing the door on spyware, worms, and viruses. The Firefox community of developers and security experts works around the clock to monitor security issues and release updates to better protect you.
***Clear Private Data
Protect your privacy with the new Clear Private Data tool. With a single click, you can delete all personal data, including browsing history, cookies, Web form entries and passwords.
***Live Bookmarks
Stay up to date with your favorite Web sites and blogs. Use Live Bookmarks that update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.
***Accessibility
Firefox 1.5 delivers easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which, when enabled by Web authors, allows rich Web applications to be read aloud. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
***Customize Firefox
Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes - the way Firefox looks and works is under your control.
***Next Generation Web Support
Innovative new Web applications and services deliver a richer Web experience. Support for open Web standards in Firefox ensures you can get the most out of this emerging class of Web-based tools.
2006-10-14 05:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by djskeets 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is the scoop (really old news). Mozilla is the name of the standard test application that was developed by the open community that the internet "www" was based on. Mozilla was developed as test product that satisfied the basic http webspace, so commercial developers could invent their own browser.
You see, in the United States, Companies cannot collaborate in secret, they must use a public forum. The whole idea of the internet was very complex, so a test product was developed by the collaboration team.
Given some time to innovate beyond the original specifications, AOL, Netscape, Internet Explorer and other browsers were encouraged to compete. The Mozilla team was permitted to further develop their free test offering in the FireFox product. Based strictly on the public specification, it does not utilize any private protocols, such as ActiveX and private label JAVA (no such thing... ha ha). But a large number of protocols can be added through their PlugIn program.
FireFox, without any special plugins, is resistant to Spyware and other security threats. With Javascript plugins and upgrades, as well as the attraction of so many users, FireFox is experiencing some spyware threats. But it is still safer for general browsing than Internet Explorer.
FireFox is NOT faster than Internet Explorer when you consider and EVEN test. You see, if IE is infected with Spyware or littered with many cookies; of course it would appear to be slower than FireFox. But when all of the offline files and cookies are deleted, you will quickly see that Internet Explorer is faster. It should be; since it is closely integrated with the Windows system. It just makes sense. But the slight hesitation that is experienced with FireFox is a wise move.
2006-10-15 00:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer 1: it is not IE. I am not just IE bashing, when MS was fighting Netscape for browser domination they put a lot of work on IE. After NS collapsed MS did nothing - zip. By supporting other browsers you force MS to work on IE.
Answer 2: It is not IE. Leaving aside the issue of whether IE is less secure than others, since it still has 90% of the market hackers focus on it. Few of them will look for exploits on other browsers because the numbers are just not there.
Answer 3: it is open source. When bugs are found in it they are fixed very quickly, and lots of people can review the fix. MS is famous for slow and incomplete fixes.
Answer 4: the extensions offer a lot of really nice functionality which you will not ever see in IE.
As to whether it is good or bad, that is more a personal decision. Technically it is a very respectable browser, faster, smaller, and more secure than IE.
On the other hand, I urge you to look at others as well. I use Opera, which is (I think) wonderful. It is smaller and faster than Firefox, very innovative, under active professional development (it is very successful on cell phone platforms). It has been used for much longer than Firefox so many bugs have already been worked out. It is very fast, and also includes a mail client that I find useful (and is much more secure than Outlook). And it is free. Earlier versions had a small ad in the upper right, but with version 9 they have eliminated that.
2006-10-14 05:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by sofarsogood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both.
It's good in that most sites run well with it, and some require it. The problem is that MS Internet Explorer has so many proprietary features and quirks that some sites exploit, that Mozilla can't always properly display them.
If people would stick to standards, all sites would work well with all browsers, but that's just not the case.
If Mozilla gathered more of the market share, then perhaps web developers would spend more time insuring that their sites would work with browsers other than MS.
--Dee
2006-10-14 05:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have used just about every browser out thier, and keep comeing back to mozilla firefox .it is the best one i have found it does have its faults but nothing major. alot of the problems i have heard from others who have answered your question mozilla now has plugins to fix but thier are still some sites i need I.E. for but not many.
2006-10-14 05:50:49 · answer #5 · answered by steamroller98439 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mozilla Firefox is better than Internet Explorer, becouse it's faster (it is a fact) and doesn't allow pop-ups to show-up!
2006-10-14 05:33:52 · answer #6 · answered by shteck2k6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a great browser that follows the rules but does not support active x. Also as many people write their pages to display best with IE and never check how it works with firefox, you sometimes get strange results.
2006-10-14 05:32:50 · answer #7 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firefox is your suited guess. when you consider which you're safer on the browser and it will play something. and you may customize it to what you definitely must be and help you with the web content you bypass to alot. you in basic terms prefer a plugin and that's going to paintings.
2016-10-16 04:43:56 · answer #8 · answered by dopico 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mozilla Firefox has more speed then explorer
try it or dont
2006-10-14 05:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dear,
Mozilla Firefox is better than Microsoft IE (Internet Explorer)
Mozilla Foundation
"Mozilla" is sometimes used to refer to the free software / open source software project that was founded in order to create the next-generation Internet suite for Netscape. The Mozilla Organization was founded in 1998 to create the new suite. On July 15, 2003, the organization was formally registered as a not-for-profit organization, and became Mozilla Foundation. The foundation now creates and maintains the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email application, among other products. The Mozilla trademark is held by the Mozilla Foundation as of 2006.
Mozilla Corporation
On August 3, 2005, Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned for-profit taxable subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation, that will focus on delivering Firefox and Thunderbird to end users. It will also oversee marketing and sponsorship of the products.
Mozilla is a computer term which has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. The various uses of the term "Mozilla" are listed below in the order when they were first used:
Contents
1 Codename of Netscape Navigator
2 Mascot of Netscape
3 Part of user agent string of many browsers
4 Mozilla project
4.1 Mozilla Foundation
4.2 Mozilla Corporation
5 Mozilla Application Suite
6 A collective name for all Mozilla-based browsers
7 Mozilla application framework
8 Mozilla codebase
9 See also
10 External links
Codename of Netscape Navigator
Historically, Mozilla had been used internally as a codename for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. It was a contraction of Mosaic killer (that is, the euphemism "killa" leading to Moz+illa), referring to the hope that the project would unseat Mosaic as the web's most popular browser, and making reference to the name of the fictional monster Godzilla.
Mascot of Netscape
Mozilla was the mascot of the now-disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation, formerly called Mosaic Communications Corporation. Initially, the mascot took various forms, including that of a helmeted astronaut or "spaceman", but the eventual choice of a Godzilla-like lizard was no doubt thought to go well with the Godzilla-like name. It was designed by Dave Titus in 1994.
Mozilla was featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years. However, the need to project a more "professional" image (especially towards corporate clients) led to it being removed. Mozilla continued to be used inside Netscape, though, often featuring on T-shirts given to staff or on artwork adorning the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View.
When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they rebranded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname "dmoz" (Directory of Mozilla) due to its similarity to the Mozilla project. An image of Mozilla was placed on every page of the site, which remains the case today, despite Netscape's disbanding after its acquisition by AOL.
Part of user agent string of many browsers
When users visit a website (via a user agent such as a web browser), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. It is known as the "user agent string". The Netscape web browser identified itself as "Mozilla/
Because the Netscape browser initially implemented many features not available in other browsers and quickly came to dominate the market, a number of web sites were designed to only work, or work fully, when they detected an appropriate version of Mozilla in the user agent string. Thus, competing browsers began to emulate (cloak or "spoof") this string in order to also work with those sites. The earliest example of this is Internet Explorer's use of a user agent string beginning "Mozilla/
Mozilla Application Suite
Main article: Mozilla Application Suite
Mozilla 1.7.8 displaying Wikipedia's main pageIn March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator internet suite under an open source license. The name of the application developed from this was named as Mozilla, as it was used as the codename of the original Netscape Navigator. After a series of lengthy pre-1.0 cycles, Mozilla 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002.
The suite was well known as the open source base of the Netscape suite (versions 6 and 7), and its underlying code base (most notably the Gecko layout engine) became the base of many standalone applications, including the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is often marketed as "Mozilla Suite", or the more lengthy "Mozilla Application Suite".
The Mozilla Foundation no longer maintains the suite, so that their developers can focus on Firefox and Thunderbird. The suite has been unofficially superseded by SeaMonkey, an Internet suite developed by the Mozilla community that is based on the source code of the Mozilla Suite.
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2006-10-14 05:41:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋