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Top 7 Reasons Why Firefox is Better then Internet Explorer

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

I really enjoy surfing the web with Firefox. Here are my top 10 reasons why you should start downloading Firefox and start using it.

1. Firefox is safer
You are able to browse safer with Firefox because of it capacity to be configured. You got phishing protection (now embedded in Internet Explorer 7 too), automated update (with out the need to restart your computer) protection from spyware (in all the years I have used Firefox I had no problems with spywares).

2. Firefox is open source
So this means if you know to code or you know some one to code you can put anything on this browser. Being open source a large community of experts are testing it and upgrade it. Even you can do that if you know to program.

3. Firefox supports thousands of add ons

The browser has an add on manager and you can put any plugin/add on you wish. (I will talk about this in another post). You can have a mail, ftp client in it. You can do almost anything you want with out opening other programs.

4. You have a search engine manager
Why go to your favorite search engines when you can use the built in ones.
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5. You have a powerful pop-up blocker

6. Live Titles - keep up to date

Keep an eye on that auction or the status of a delivery using the new Live Titles feature in Firefox 2. Compact enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly updated summaries of the most important information on a Web page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does your Live Title. Try one out in Firefox 2 by bookmarking www.woot.com.

7. Session Restore
This is a great future. Think you have all the sorts of pages opened and something happens: a crash, an electricity shut down and so on. And you got all your favorite pages opened but you hadn’t saved them. Firefox has the power and the ability to restore your session even if crash or a forced shout down happened.

Bonus: My 8 reasons and for sure not my last
It has a built in dictionaries so you will never make a mistake when you are writing (or in the most cases…).

So go ahead and download this baby from here.