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Should Be Using Firefox? The Top 5 Reasons Why.

By: Michael Primius

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.

Also, the security of Firefox is much better than other browsers because it was designed to be secure since its inception. Instead to creating a "bloated" product with a lot of features, they thought it was better that features could be added by users and created a mechanism called "plugins", which are created by third parties and add the functionality that users demand.

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

1. Respect of Standards. Firefox works following the standards dictated by the W3C Consortium, meaning that all pages built with those standards should be shown exactly the same in all browsers that respect those standards. Microsoft included functionality with the intention to keep users from using other browsers, which is felt as "bad behavior" by the programming community in general.

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. Proven Security. When the US Computer Emergency and Response Team (CERT) recommends that you should be using any browser other than Internet Explorer, certainly you should listen. In this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998 they warn people about the security problems of Internet Explorer. Firefox was developed with security in mind, so it is much less vulnerable.

4. Commitment. The Mozilla Foundation is constantly developing never programs and solutions for users, regardless of market share or earning because all their products are free. They created Thunderbird (to read email), NVU (a web page editor) and many other useful programs.

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.

While all this reasons are important, you should be using Firefox primarily because it is more secure and provides a better browsing experience than Internet Explorer. Maybe Microsoft will redesign or rewrite completely Internet Explorer in some future to be a more stable, but you can wait or start using a superior product that gets better every day, immediately. Download Firefox and feel the difference now.

Article Source: http://www.articlemanual.com

Copyright 2007 - Michael Primius has 4 years of experience commenting about Modzilla and the Foxfire browser. Get it now and enjoy a free course to stay secure on the net. ---1---



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