I want to Know more about Mozilla firefox?

Question

what is the difference between IE AND mozilla firefox, what are its benefits

Answer 1

http://ffbrowser.blogspot.com/2006/12/firefox-features.html

Answer 2

I've been with firefox for quite a while and I have almost no problem with unwanted pop ups any more. It works just as well as IE and has many extensions to help you make it better. The download is fast and you can still use IE if you want. the are some sites that you still need IE for to get their full options but not enough that you wont still love firefox.

Answer 3

There’s a lot to do on the Web, and Firefox 2 is full of helpful features to make your time online more productive. For Example:

Improved Tabbed Browsing

I love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don’t worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of “Recently Closed Tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.

Spell Checking

Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i” before “e” or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.

Session Restore

Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you’ll never lose your work again!

Pop Up Blocker

Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you’re viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.

Streamlined Interface

The user interface in Firefox 2 has been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.

Phishing Protection

Phishing Protection takes Firefox’s security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as a “phishing” site) Firefox will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for.

Open Source, More Secure

At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.

Automated Update

Firefox’s update system always checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.

Protection from Spyware

Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you what’s happening so that you can stay in control of your computer.

Clear Private Data

Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with the “Clear Private Data” tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox it’s gone - whether you are using your own computer or one at the library.





As for Internet Explorer:

1)Tabbed Browsing (new in IE7, doesnt work well)
2) Pop up blocker ( useless, doesnt block anything)
3) A lot of bugs and security issues
Theres a long list which i wont bother naming. Get Firefox.

Answer 4

Firefox at times does not render pages correctly. Many 'pros' out there haven't figured out that some of these 'nifty' menus will not load for anyone else but explorer users.

For the most part firefox runs on most sites, at least the newer version pretty much did the work that the half assed web designers did not.

Firefox will keep you from getting ALOT of spyware like explorer currently does. I switch people and companies to firefox constantly and never hear a peep.

Recently there is a new attack on firefox that disables its ability to do some flash operations but you will 99.9% most likely never encounter this.

It just a better browser honestly, with more options and more personal freedom with security and clearing your history/cache etc easier.

Try it, you'll like it. You can also get rid of it, or, just stop using it and keep using explorer.

Answer 5

To my knowledge mozilla browser is more secure than IE. but IE has released version 7.0 you can upgrade that or if you really like to know about firefox browser benefits

Answer 6

This is not a one-on-one comparison but it should give you an idea. Firefox 2 has also been released but has all the strong features discussed in this article

http://cybertopcops.blogspot.com/2006/09/firefox-15-vs-internet-explorer-7-it.html

Answer 7

IE is slower, i am using Mozilla right now and it is much faster, and Mozilla has a tab bar where you can put in all your faveorite websites!

Answer 8

it is a lot better that ie, it is very good and easy to use, when i use windows i use firefox as it is better