5 Reasons Why Firefox Should Be Your Preferred Browser

Firefox is the new browser from the Mozilla Foundation, which was built to carefully support the many standards given by the W3C Consortium (in charge of defining a common way to display web pages, so they display the same in different browsers) while being designed with security in mind.

Instead of stuffing many features into the product, Firefox was built with a solid foundation and has the ability to get new functionality in the form of "plug-ins", which are installed by users when they need them.

Here are the top 5 reasons why you should be using Firefox:

1. Microsoft seems to have a wicked plan. Internet Explorer added many features that weren't in the standards specification of the W3C consortium. When web developers began using those "features", web pages started to look bad in browsers that don't support those non-standard "features". Average users thought that Internet Explorer was the best browser because of this.

2. Improvement and continuous development. Internet Explorer developed many versions of his browser through 1,995 till 2,001 and then, when Internet Explorer got more than 90% market share, developments stopped until recently, when they started to lose market share. Also, Microsoft wasn't fair in the war because they included Explorer in every product they could, while Netscape (the competing browser at the time) couldn't do anything similar.

3. Firefox is secure. Internet Explorer has many known security issues (some could be fixed, some not) that allows the execution of unknown programs in your PC. Other browsers don't have these problems. Even the CERT (the US Computer Emergency Response Team) advised people to use a different browser other than Internet Explorer. You can find the article here: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998

4. Mozilla develops more solutions. The Mozilla Foundation is not worried about market share and develops useful programs as free Open Source, meaning that everybody could look at the source could if they wish. Not only they developed Firefox, but also, Thunderbird (to read email) NVU (a program to edit Web Pages) and many other excellent and useful software.

5. Firefox is open source. Nobody knows what is running inside Internet Explorer, but you can ask any good programmer to explain what the code is doing in Firefox, line by line because the source is open to all people. Maybe this may not affect you, but who knows when Microsoft could be using this for his own advantage.

I can give you many reasons more, but security is the best one. Firefox is much more secure by design while Internet Explorer has to be patched year after year, creating a more unstable product through time unless a complete redesign and rewrite happens, which is very unlikely. Why wait until Microsoft starts doing things well? Instead, get Firefox now and enjoy a faster and a more secure browsing.

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Copyright 2007 - Michael Primius has 4 years of experience writing about Modzilla and the Foxfire browser. Download now and benefit from a free course to stay secure on the net. ---1---

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