| Firefox was able to challenge Microsoft internet | | | | IE7. |
| supremacy of the browsers market as soon as it | | | | Internet explorer 7 still lacks a download manager; a |
| was released by the Mozilla foundation in 2002. It has | | | | critical functionality which allows the user to pause |
| proved its efficiency on different OS including | | | | resume downloads, whereas Firefox has a built in |
| Windows, Linux, BSD and UNIX. | | | | download manager. |
| What are the advantages of Mozilla Firefox? | | | | Mozilla Firefox provides extensive control over the |
| Security is handled by Firefox like no other browser. | | | | page content. You can block ads, JavaScript and |
| It blocks Spyware and malware installation whereas | | | | images. You can have power over the fonts and |
| internet explorer Microsoft components love | | | | color of the websites default settings. |
| Spyware, viruses and pop-ups. Well you just need to | | | | Spell checking which is very useful for blogging and |
| Google for the term, "internet explorer crash" to get | | | | forms fillings online is supported on Firefox but not on |
| a thorough idea, every now and then the Microsoft | | | | internet explorer. CSS 2 which is a W3C |
| guys come with an urgent security update for | | | | recommendation has a partial support in internet |
| internet explorer users. Even though Microsoft could | | | | explorer and full support in Firefox, allowing the |
| have been the target of tremendous amount of | | | | websites styled using CSS 2 to be displayed in the |
| hackers when being compared to Firefox, but still | | | | right way. |
| Microsoft holds the responsibility for the security | | | | Above all, Firefox is an open-source project, which |
| holes in internet explorer. The way at which security | | | | means that there are programmers going through |
| is handled at Firefox is completely different from IE, | | | | the code trying to add new features, extensions, |
| as it doesn't rely on digital signatures, security zones | | | | plug-ins and bugs fixes as necessary. Microsoft is a |
| and doesn't above all include the terrible ActiveX | | | | company that is hated by millions all over the world |
| component which has always been used by certain | | | | meaning it will be probably under the constant threat |
| websites to execute dangerous scripts and install | | | | of malicious attacks by hackers to beat it. |
| malicious components on your computer. Both | | | | If you'd like to get detailed info about the features |
| Browsers have a phishing protection mechanism | | | | and compatibility of each browser with the web |
| defending against identity theft. | | | | standards you can get more info from Wikipedia. The |
| Tabbed browsing which allows you to open multiple | | | | link provides a detailed look at almost every browser |
| documents in the same window is supported in Mozilla | | | | on earth including Maxthon, Flock, Avant, Safari, |
| Firefox. This feature has only been newly applied to | | | | Opera, Netsacpe and many others. |