Why do i love FireFox?
IE: a wannabe firefox?
First lets talk about the predecessor. A post about IE7 on TechCrunch generated a lot of comments complaining about the lack of innovation in the Microsoft product. The timeline between IE6 and IE7 has been unusually long by software standards, so it was reasonable to expect a decent amount of innovation.
But nothing is near to ‘innovation’. All the features, though they look like the Microsoft IE-styled integration, are what firefox has. Infact, the features are what firefox came out as foxier than IE. So all looked like imitation.
Firefox
In just a few years, Firefox has taken
the previously dormant browsing market by storm and woken the slumbering giant Microsoft.
Any browser that was to successfully challenge IE6’s market dominance would have to be far and away the best browser on offer. Netscape 6 was decent, but didn’t cut it. The Mozilla suite, on which Navigator 6 was based, is excellent but aimed at developers and unwieldy for most user’s needs. The web needed a browser that was fast, lightweight, and did everything IE does, but better. The answer to that: Firefox.
Features that i Like the MOST! :
Firefox has an open architecture which allows the installation of
themes and extensions. Themes, like ‘skins’ in many other applications,
give the browser a whole new look. Extensions are even better — anyone
can write one to make the browser do something special, like check your
Gmail account when you open the browser, or block all ads.
- I like the IE Tab, with which i open the sites which cry to
open in firefox. Another interesting thing i do with IE Tab is to open
two gmail accounts at the same time in two different tabs, one firefox
tab, one ie tab. - And ofcourse, i use Performancing, which lets me configure my blog account very easily and blog within any tab.
- Firefox uses the same powerful rendering engine (code named “Gecko”) which is found in all Mozilla products. This means it has superb support for all those things we web developers love. Its rendering is accurate and fast, and it has advanced stylesheet support up the proverbial ‘wazoo’. DOM support is present and accounted for.
- Search is probably the most fundamental thing we do online and Firefox excels at
integrating search engines in a very smart way. With this new release, Firefox adds the
search completion mechanism, which works just like Google complete.
- FireFTP:
FireFTP is a Firefox add-on which enables you to upload your site or
files via the FTP protocol. It is handy if you are a Firefox user
because of the idea of running it inside one of the tabs so you don’t
have to launch an extra program. I looove this feature!
This free add-on allows you to upload to anywhere on the internet with FTP ability, providing you have the password of course.
You can run multiple FTP accounts and switch between them with a
simple drop down list. It is faster than most FTP clients I have used
and includes a whole host of features as well as a very good help
website to accompany it.
The program is available through the Mozilla Firefox add on website or direct from fireftp.mozdev.org.
Pros: Firefox has a tabbed interface; includes a pop-up
blocker; built-in, multiple search tools; and built-in RSS reader. It
is stable and free.
Cons:
No ActiveX support, so not all sites work in Firefox.
Overall:
Firefox’s tabbed browsing, RSS support, security features, and overall
cool factor make it more attractive than Internet Explorer.
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