By Gabriel J. Adams
If you're much of a tech geek, you probably have at least heard of the "browser war" between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. For years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has had a near monopoly on the browser market. Sure, they had a little competition from Netscape, but not much. That has all changed with Firefox. Mozilla's Firefox has put a large dent in the IE market share.
But why? What makes Firefox attractive? As a Firefox user, I think I can tell you. I can at least tell you what attracts me to Firefox.
Tabbed Browsing. This feature is a huge plus to me. As an Internet marketer, I can do some heavy duty web browsing. It's a lot easier to have 25 tabs open that 25 windows.
Search Features. Firefox has that cool search bar in the upper right hand corner. With the click of a button, I can search using any one of many search engines. This is another feature that is very attractive to Internet marketers.
Extensions. Firefox add-ons are a lot easier to come by that IE add ons, probably because Firefox is completely open source. Sure, there are plenty of IE toolbars, but there are tons of Firefox tools, that can do all kinds of cool stuff.
Skins. I don't really care too much about this feature, but you can customize your Firefox browser with a cool design - for free.
Security. Last but not least, Microsoft Internet Explorer has been exploited many, many times by various security threats. Mozilla's Firefox is less susceptible to security breaches, so many people use Firefox to stay secure on the net.
These are just the major benefits that Firefox offers. Interestingly enough, Microsoft is trying to add many of these features to their IE 7. If the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, Microsoft itself admits that Firefox is great!
http://www.aftertek.com/firefox-vs-internet-explorer.html
Friday, November 2, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Firefox Reached 400 Million Target
David Datour
The Firefox power is growing strong since its launch date in 2004, with an increase from 100 Million to 200 Million 2 years later. It managed to doubled popularity in 2007 reaching 400 Million last week.
It's important to say that these 400 Million downloads do not represent the number of people who use the increasingly popular Internet browser. The number also includes updates or people who have re-installed Firefox. However there is no time to rest as it does not mean that every user who has downloaded the software is actively using it.
Firefox is gaining more and more market shares from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and has reached around 18% according to W3Counter, this is a loss of about 9% for Internet Explorer.
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/firefox-reached-400-million-target-213147.html
The Firefox power is growing strong since its launch date in 2004, with an increase from 100 Million to 200 Million 2 years later. It managed to doubled popularity in 2007 reaching 400 Million last week.
It's important to say that these 400 Million downloads do not represent the number of people who use the increasingly popular Internet browser. The number also includes updates or people who have re-installed Firefox. However there is no time to rest as it does not mean that every user who has downloaded the software is actively using it.
Firefox is gaining more and more market shares from Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and has reached around 18% according to W3Counter, this is a loss of about 9% for Internet Explorer.
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/firefox-reached-400-million-target-213147.html
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Download Firefox Free Mozilla - With Free Google Toolbar
By Kim J
Microsoft Internet Explorer keeps Crashing on you?
Loosing all your hard work on the computer after many hours of typing?
Problem: Microsoft internet explorer has alot of coding errors in it, alot of the software programming is not compatible with some web pages.
Here is your solution.
Benefits: Firefox is free, it work for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Firefox is very fast, secure, and is easy to use and navigate. The user interface is straightforward and uncomplicated. Download Firefox Free Mozilla
There is a built in useful automatic popup blocker, this comes with the free sotware download from the site listed.
It has popup blocking capability, Firefox also allows you to use tabs to open new web pages instead of using a new window. you can also open web pages in the background.
If you are trying to download some file, it will be automatically saved to your desktop, installing the new browser is very simple and easy to do.
Download Firefox Free Mozilla, Importing all your saved favorite sites from internet explorer is a piece of cake.
Firefox is also available in several languages so if you prefer to use some other language other then English, you can just install your language of choice.
Firefox browser prevents Spyware and Adware from automatically installing themselves on your computer.
Pick the better choice.
I think you will find that fire is a lot more stable and smooth.
Pick Firefox, its a better and more fast, reliable browser than internet explorer.
Download Firefox Free Mozilla!
http://firefoxtoyou.blogspot.com/
Microsoft Internet Explorer keeps Crashing on you?
Loosing all your hard work on the computer after many hours of typing?
Problem: Microsoft internet explorer has alot of coding errors in it, alot of the software programming is not compatible with some web pages.
Here is your solution.
Benefits: Firefox is free, it work for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Firefox is very fast, secure, and is easy to use and navigate. The user interface is straightforward and uncomplicated. Download Firefox Free Mozilla
There is a built in useful automatic popup blocker, this comes with the free sotware download from the site listed.
It has popup blocking capability, Firefox also allows you to use tabs to open new web pages instead of using a new window. you can also open web pages in the background.
If you are trying to download some file, it will be automatically saved to your desktop, installing the new browser is very simple and easy to do.
Download Firefox Free Mozilla, Importing all your saved favorite sites from internet explorer is a piece of cake.
Firefox is also available in several languages so if you prefer to use some other language other then English, you can just install your language of choice.
Firefox browser prevents Spyware and Adware from automatically installing themselves on your computer.
Pick the better choice.
I think you will find that fire is a lot more stable and smooth.
Pick Firefox, its a better and more fast, reliable browser than internet explorer.
Download Firefox Free Mozilla!
http://firefoxtoyou.blogspot.com/
What Makes Mozilla's Firefox Attractive?
By Gabriel J. Adams
If you're much of a tech geek, you probably have at least heard of the "browser war" between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. For years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has had a near monopoly on the browser market. Sure, they had a little competition from Netscape, but not much. That has all changed with Firefox. Mozilla's Firefox has put a large dent in the IE market share.
But why? What makes Firefox attractive? As a Firefox user, I think I can tell you. I can at least tell you what attracts me to Firefox.
Tabbed Browsing. This feature is a huge plus to me. As an Internet marketer, I can do some heavy duty web browsing. It's a lot easier to have 25 tabs open that 25 windows.
Search Features. Firefox has that cool search bar in the upper right hand corner. With the click of a button, I can search using any one of many search engines. This is another feature that is very attractive to Internet marketers.
Extensions. Firefox add-ons are a lot easier to come by that IE add ons, probably because Firefox is completely open source. Sure, there are plenty of IE toolbars, but there are tons of Firefox tools, that can do all kinds of cool stuff.
Skins. I don't really care too much about this feature, but you can customize your Firefox browser with a cool design - for free.
Security. Last but not least, Microsoft Internet Explorer has been exploited many, many times by various security threats. Mozilla's Firefox is less susceptible to security breaches, so many people use Firefox to stay secure on the net.
These are just the major benefits that Firefox offers. Interestingly enough, Microsoft is trying to add many of these features to their IE 7. If the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, Microsoft itself admits that Firefox is great!
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gabriel_J._Adams
If you're much of a tech geek, you probably have at least heard of the "browser war" between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. For years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has had a near monopoly on the browser market. Sure, they had a little competition from Netscape, but not much. That has all changed with Firefox. Mozilla's Firefox has put a large dent in the IE market share.
But why? What makes Firefox attractive? As a Firefox user, I think I can tell you. I can at least tell you what attracts me to Firefox.
Tabbed Browsing. This feature is a huge plus to me. As an Internet marketer, I can do some heavy duty web browsing. It's a lot easier to have 25 tabs open that 25 windows.
Search Features. Firefox has that cool search bar in the upper right hand corner. With the click of a button, I can search using any one of many search engines. This is another feature that is very attractive to Internet marketers.
Extensions. Firefox add-ons are a lot easier to come by that IE add ons, probably because Firefox is completely open source. Sure, there are plenty of IE toolbars, but there are tons of Firefox tools, that can do all kinds of cool stuff.
Skins. I don't really care too much about this feature, but you can customize your Firefox browser with a cool design - for free.
Security. Last but not least, Microsoft Internet Explorer has been exploited many, many times by various security threats. Mozilla's Firefox is less susceptible to security breaches, so many people use Firefox to stay secure on the net.
These are just the major benefits that Firefox offers. Interestingly enough, Microsoft is trying to add many of these features to their IE 7. If the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, Microsoft itself admits that Firefox is great!
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gabriel_J._Adams
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Firefox Provides the best Protection for the Internet Today
Companies spend billions of dollars each year combating spam. Billions more is spent with the loss of productivity, having to purchase additional equipment, software, and man hours filtering through unwanted spam, and fixing problems directly related from spam. Direct effects of spam are the consumption of network and computer resources, data and intellectual property theft, identity theft, infection from virus and malware infection, and more.
When most people think of spam, they are thinking of the unsolicited emails sitting in their inbox that is time consuming to clean up. However, there are many more different types of spam; instant messaging spam, chat spam, newsgroup and forum spam, even cell phone spam, blogs and guestbook spam, video sharing spam, video gaming spam, mail bombing, and non-commercial spam. Email and Internet spam is frustrating and sometimes embarrassing when pornography pops up in front of grandma.
Why would someone want to send out so many annoying messages or pop-ups and what is the benefit for a spammer? A spammer expects total profit and if even only small percentages of people respond or make a purchase from the spam message, the spammer stands to make a bunch of money. Other non-commercial spammers are criminals seeking banking information, committing fraud, and have even lured people to their own kidnappings and murders. Competitors might use spam as a denial of service to your website to flood the viewer of your website with a ton of pop-ups and make it impossible to view the site. This is another malicious way spammers attack.
Having a positive Internet and positive email experience is what everyone wants. Mozilla wants this for everyone too. Mozilla is a non-profit organization who is dedicated to making your online experience incredible. They offer their web browser Firefox free of charge. Firefox is available to all Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, in over 35 different languages. This web browser has integrated protection from spam, pop-ups, and phishing protection that tells you when you have accessed a website that is looking for information.
Mozilla Firefox is the leading web browser because they care about what the user wants. This browser allows you to personalize it the way you want it. Firefox includes a spell checker and search engine suggestions. It also includes a session restore so when you lose your Internet connection and have to sign online again, Firefox will take you back to the exact webpage from where your session terminated. That way, you don’t have to spend hours finding where you were before. Firefox even has accessibility features that integrate with Microsoft’s accessibility features in Windows for people with physical impairments to easily surf the web without having too many keystrokes to get to the site they want.
The best quality of Mozilla’s Firefox is the protection. Unlike Internet Explorer, Firefox has a button to clear private data so the browser doesn’t keep personal information. It also automatically updates itself. This is much better than having to go to Microsoft’s website to install the latest security updates and patches.
Don’t allow unwanted spam, pop-ups, and phishing sites ruin your computing. In today’s online world, Microsoft just isn’t cutting it. Mozilla Firefox provides the total protection needed for the safest online experience.
http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm/325173?articleid=325173
When most people think of spam, they are thinking of the unsolicited emails sitting in their inbox that is time consuming to clean up. However, there are many more different types of spam; instant messaging spam, chat spam, newsgroup and forum spam, even cell phone spam, blogs and guestbook spam, video sharing spam, video gaming spam, mail bombing, and non-commercial spam. Email and Internet spam is frustrating and sometimes embarrassing when pornography pops up in front of grandma.
Why would someone want to send out so many annoying messages or pop-ups and what is the benefit for a spammer? A spammer expects total profit and if even only small percentages of people respond or make a purchase from the spam message, the spammer stands to make a bunch of money. Other non-commercial spammers are criminals seeking banking information, committing fraud, and have even lured people to their own kidnappings and murders. Competitors might use spam as a denial of service to your website to flood the viewer of your website with a ton of pop-ups and make it impossible to view the site. This is another malicious way spammers attack.
Having a positive Internet and positive email experience is what everyone wants. Mozilla wants this for everyone too. Mozilla is a non-profit organization who is dedicated to making your online experience incredible. They offer their web browser Firefox free of charge. Firefox is available to all Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, in over 35 different languages. This web browser has integrated protection from spam, pop-ups, and phishing protection that tells you when you have accessed a website that is looking for information.
Mozilla Firefox is the leading web browser because they care about what the user wants. This browser allows you to personalize it the way you want it. Firefox includes a spell checker and search engine suggestions. It also includes a session restore so when you lose your Internet connection and have to sign online again, Firefox will take you back to the exact webpage from where your session terminated. That way, you don’t have to spend hours finding where you were before. Firefox even has accessibility features that integrate with Microsoft’s accessibility features in Windows for people with physical impairments to easily surf the web without having too many keystrokes to get to the site they want.
The best quality of Mozilla’s Firefox is the protection. Unlike Internet Explorer, Firefox has a button to clear private data so the browser doesn’t keep personal information. It also automatically updates itself. This is much better than having to go to Microsoft’s website to install the latest security updates and patches.
Don’t allow unwanted spam, pop-ups, and phishing sites ruin your computing. In today’s online world, Microsoft just isn’t cutting it. Mozilla Firefox provides the total protection needed for the safest online experience.
http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm/325173?articleid=325173
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Firefox: Benefit Analysis versus Internet Explorer
By Matt Bacak
Most of Firefox's advantages are MSIE's disadvantages, and vice-versa. This article will look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox in relation to MSIE.
Advantages
Security
Security is often cited as the primary reason for users switching from MSIE to Firefox. Security is of utmost importance for software that interacts with remote computers, in an era of high security risk activities such as online banking.
Firefox has fewer security holes and a tighter schedule of disclosing them. The enhanced security in Firefox is due to a multitude of factors the system's inclusion of more source code reviewers and a better bug reporting system and exclusion of VBScript/ActiveX, often the source of vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been clamoring for years to try to clamp down on the MSIE security holes. It acquired an anti-spyware product, which it released under the banner of Microsoft AntiSpyware. It also promises its new Windows Vista platform will be more secure. However, Microsoft's track record to date has done little to boost the confidence of today's user. Standards compliance
Firefox has vaulted ahead of MSIE with improved support for standard web protocols, such as its superior stylesheet compatibility.
Since MSIE had a leading marketshare, the company had less interest in conforming to web standards, and instead focused on proprietary protocols, with the goal of maintaining their market position. That is, the focus of Microsoft was to try to convert as much of its userbase to writing webpages and web applications that required a proprietary MSIE-approach, so that down the road, users would be less able to move off a Microsoft platform. As a result, Microsoft neglected for years to improve support for basic open standards. For example, transparent PNG graphics did not work all the way through to MSIE version 6.
Multiple operating system platforms
Firefox is available for users who runs Windows (Windows 98 through to Windows XP), Mac OS X, all the leading versions of Linux, as well as some lesser-used operating systems. In comparison, Microsoft has dropped development for Mac, and other non-Windows systems. Furthermore, Microsoft has ceased new development even on their own versions of Windows, making the new MSIE only available to users who have a license for Windows XP. Firefox also has a similar user interface among the different operating platforms. For deployments that have a mix of operating platforms (such as Linux for the techs, Macs for the graphic designers, and Windows for the accounts department), moving to Firefox for everyone thus brings technical support costs down.
Time-saving browser innovations
Internet communication and interaction is a core component for most modern businesses. Efficient use of web browser time translates to increased profits, so innovations to help workers do their tasks faster are welcomed. Firefox leads MSIE in this regard, with out-of-the-box features such as integrated Google search in the toolbar, placing the find-within-page box at the bottom of the browser window so as not to obscure the text, and so on.
Disadvantages
Retraining
Any switch of software incurs a retraining cost. However, a switch from MSIE to Firefox requires only a mild amount of retraining.
The switch from MSIE to Firefox is designed to be easy, with proper import of bookmarks and other settings.
Browser interfaces are becoming standard, so understanding how to get up and running is not usually a problem. There are some only minor adjustments. For example, "Internet Files" in MSIE is called "Cache" in Firefox. One can use a downloaded MSIE theme so that the Firefox user interface even more closely resembles that of MSIE.
Incomplete migration
In a business with Windows computers, if the switch from MSIE to Firefox is incomplete, it can cost more to offer technical support for both browsers. This argument would only apply to shops whose Windows computers are all Windows XP. Since the new MSIE is only available for Windows XP, if there are different Windows versions (such as Windows NT or 2000), then the technical support team already needs to support different types of MSIE browsers.
Another consideration, however, is that even an incomplete switch from MSIE to Firefox could result in less technical support, since the Firefox users would be less likely to need help with fixing their computer after an MSIE-related security breach.
http://www.powerfulpromoter.com
Most of Firefox's advantages are MSIE's disadvantages, and vice-versa. This article will look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox in relation to MSIE.
Advantages
Security
Security is often cited as the primary reason for users switching from MSIE to Firefox. Security is of utmost importance for software that interacts with remote computers, in an era of high security risk activities such as online banking.
Firefox has fewer security holes and a tighter schedule of disclosing them. The enhanced security in Firefox is due to a multitude of factors the system's inclusion of more source code reviewers and a better bug reporting system and exclusion of VBScript/ActiveX, often the source of vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been clamoring for years to try to clamp down on the MSIE security holes. It acquired an anti-spyware product, which it released under the banner of Microsoft AntiSpyware. It also promises its new Windows Vista platform will be more secure. However, Microsoft's track record to date has done little to boost the confidence of today's user. Standards compliance
Firefox has vaulted ahead of MSIE with improved support for standard web protocols, such as its superior stylesheet compatibility.
Since MSIE had a leading marketshare, the company had less interest in conforming to web standards, and instead focused on proprietary protocols, with the goal of maintaining their market position. That is, the focus of Microsoft was to try to convert as much of its userbase to writing webpages and web applications that required a proprietary MSIE-approach, so that down the road, users would be less able to move off a Microsoft platform. As a result, Microsoft neglected for years to improve support for basic open standards. For example, transparent PNG graphics did not work all the way through to MSIE version 6.
Multiple operating system platforms
Firefox is available for users who runs Windows (Windows 98 through to Windows XP), Mac OS X, all the leading versions of Linux, as well as some lesser-used operating systems. In comparison, Microsoft has dropped development for Mac, and other non-Windows systems. Furthermore, Microsoft has ceased new development even on their own versions of Windows, making the new MSIE only available to users who have a license for Windows XP. Firefox also has a similar user interface among the different operating platforms. For deployments that have a mix of operating platforms (such as Linux for the techs, Macs for the graphic designers, and Windows for the accounts department), moving to Firefox for everyone thus brings technical support costs down.
Time-saving browser innovations
Internet communication and interaction is a core component for most modern businesses. Efficient use of web browser time translates to increased profits, so innovations to help workers do their tasks faster are welcomed. Firefox leads MSIE in this regard, with out-of-the-box features such as integrated Google search in the toolbar, placing the find-within-page box at the bottom of the browser window so as not to obscure the text, and so on.
Disadvantages
Retraining
Any switch of software incurs a retraining cost. However, a switch from MSIE to Firefox requires only a mild amount of retraining.
The switch from MSIE to Firefox is designed to be easy, with proper import of bookmarks and other settings.
Browser interfaces are becoming standard, so understanding how to get up and running is not usually a problem. There are some only minor adjustments. For example, "Internet Files" in MSIE is called "Cache" in Firefox. One can use a downloaded MSIE theme so that the Firefox user interface even more closely resembles that of MSIE.
Incomplete migration
In a business with Windows computers, if the switch from MSIE to Firefox is incomplete, it can cost more to offer technical support for both browsers. This argument would only apply to shops whose Windows computers are all Windows XP. Since the new MSIE is only available for Windows XP, if there are different Windows versions (such as Windows NT or 2000), then the technical support team already needs to support different types of MSIE browsers.
Another consideration, however, is that even an incomplete switch from MSIE to Firefox could result in less technical support, since the Firefox users would be less likely to need help with fixing their computer after an MSIE-related security breach.
http://www.powerfulpromoter.com
The Best Web Browser - FireFox
By Steven Weber
Anyone who has or wants a web business spends a LOT of time on the web. Although it’s important to test your site in all the major browsers, choosing the best web browser to do your day to day business on the web is very important. I have a list a mile long of the things I hate about Internet Explorer. Let me get one thing straight from the start, I have nothing against Microsoft. But in my opinion, the best web browser is Firefox.
I was basically forced into using Firefox one day. I was no longer able to log on to any secure sites with my user name and password in Internet Explorer. I had read before that the best web browser was Firefox. So I downloaded its small install file and installed it. I chose to include the Google tool bar in the install since I always like to view the page rank of all the pages I visit. After using it for a day, I agreed it was probably the best web browser.
Firefox is Fast, Safe, and Secure!
Not only did it solve my logon problem, I found it to be much more reliable in other ways. On one of the computers I use, Internet Explorer had a memory leak. I had to constantly reboot it before I started using Firefox as the browser. I was even more convinced than ever Firefox was the best web browser!
Something else I discovered about Firefox was that it was much better at remembering my user names and passwords. Internet Explorer was hit and miss in this area for me. Firefox saves me a lot of time the way it inputs my user information for me.
The Best Web Browser Is Also The One Most Secure
Another area where Firefox excels at being the best web browser is its security. Surfing the web with Internet Explorer is a guaranteed way to get infected with all kinds of nasty spyware. No matter whom you are or how careful you are, you will get spyware loaded on your computer if you surf the web. There are hackers all over this world working on exploits to Internet Explorer which will stall your computer or steal your private information. In many people’s opinion, the best web browser is the one most secure. Firefox wins in this area hands down!
Here is the link to download Firefox with the Google tool bar. Be sure to install the Google tool bar for many added features. And best of all, the best web browser is absolutely FREE! The download is small, fast and secure. In no time at all you’ll be surfing with the Firefox browser.
Remember, if you are working at optimizing the pages on your site, you will definitely want to install the Google tool bar with which you can see page rank with.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Steven_Weber
Anyone who has or wants a web business spends a LOT of time on the web. Although it’s important to test your site in all the major browsers, choosing the best web browser to do your day to day business on the web is very important. I have a list a mile long of the things I hate about Internet Explorer. Let me get one thing straight from the start, I have nothing against Microsoft. But in my opinion, the best web browser is Firefox.
I was basically forced into using Firefox one day. I was no longer able to log on to any secure sites with my user name and password in Internet Explorer. I had read before that the best web browser was Firefox. So I downloaded its small install file and installed it. I chose to include the Google tool bar in the install since I always like to view the page rank of all the pages I visit. After using it for a day, I agreed it was probably the best web browser.
Firefox is Fast, Safe, and Secure!
Not only did it solve my logon problem, I found it to be much more reliable in other ways. On one of the computers I use, Internet Explorer had a memory leak. I had to constantly reboot it before I started using Firefox as the browser. I was even more convinced than ever Firefox was the best web browser!
Something else I discovered about Firefox was that it was much better at remembering my user names and passwords. Internet Explorer was hit and miss in this area for me. Firefox saves me a lot of time the way it inputs my user information for me.
The Best Web Browser Is Also The One Most Secure
Another area where Firefox excels at being the best web browser is its security. Surfing the web with Internet Explorer is a guaranteed way to get infected with all kinds of nasty spyware. No matter whom you are or how careful you are, you will get spyware loaded on your computer if you surf the web. There are hackers all over this world working on exploits to Internet Explorer which will stall your computer or steal your private information. In many people’s opinion, the best web browser is the one most secure. Firefox wins in this area hands down!
Here is the link to download Firefox with the Google tool bar. Be sure to install the Google tool bar for many added features. And best of all, the best web browser is absolutely FREE! The download is small, fast and secure. In no time at all you’ll be surfing with the Firefox browser.
Remember, if you are working at optimizing the pages on your site, you will definitely want to install the Google tool bar with which you can see page rank with.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Steven_Weber
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
7 Tips for Internet Security
by Andrew Winthorp
With the growth of the internet on a world wide basis, there has also been an increase in the number of scams and attempts to procure money or identity details illegally. This has given rise to the need to exercise caution in the websites frequented and to use credit card details responsibly for online purchases. Here are some guidelines to increase safety and protect your identity.
1. Always ensure that your browser version is keep up to date. This ensures that you are not exposed to old security flaws that are exploited by 'phishers'. You can also consider using a browser such as Firefox which is less susceptible to attacks than Internet Explorer.
2. Always install operating system updates, service packs and released patches. This prevents outside attacks from exploiting known system vulnerabilities or taking control of system commands.
3. Install virus software and run this on a regular basis. Always update this continually to keep your database current. This will insulate your system against current known agents and help to remove or quarantine any suspicious files.
4. Run regular spyware and malaware checks to remove any files the software considers a problem. With browser hijackers, keyloggers and advertising tracking all presenting potential security threats, running regular system checks will keep your system free of unwanted files.
5. Do not reply to complete security or account details email requests unless you are absolutely sure the email is authentic. Many commercial companies are being targeted by 'phishers' who email account holders and direct them to third party websites under the false pretense of updating personal details. Individuals who comply are exposed to potential identity theft.
6. Complete online banking through secure channels and log out immediately after you have finished. Do not provide any account details to individuals over the internet or through email.
7. Install a firewall and keep it regularly updated. This will protect your computer from system attacks and port scan attempts by hackers looking for vulnerabilities.
If you follow the above advice you greater improve your personal security and minimize the chances of security breaches and identity theft. The best defense against malicious behavior is to take offensive action by installing appropriate security software and maintaining regular protocols when using sensitive personal details.
www.phishing-defense.com
With the growth of the internet on a world wide basis, there has also been an increase in the number of scams and attempts to procure money or identity details illegally. This has given rise to the need to exercise caution in the websites frequented and to use credit card details responsibly for online purchases. Here are some guidelines to increase safety and protect your identity.
1. Always ensure that your browser version is keep up to date. This ensures that you are not exposed to old security flaws that are exploited by 'phishers'. You can also consider using a browser such as Firefox which is less susceptible to attacks than Internet Explorer.
2. Always install operating system updates, service packs and released patches. This prevents outside attacks from exploiting known system vulnerabilities or taking control of system commands.
3. Install virus software and run this on a regular basis. Always update this continually to keep your database current. This will insulate your system against current known agents and help to remove or quarantine any suspicious files.
4. Run regular spyware and malaware checks to remove any files the software considers a problem. With browser hijackers, keyloggers and advertising tracking all presenting potential security threats, running regular system checks will keep your system free of unwanted files.
5. Do not reply to complete security or account details email requests unless you are absolutely sure the email is authentic. Many commercial companies are being targeted by 'phishers' who email account holders and direct them to third party websites under the false pretense of updating personal details. Individuals who comply are exposed to potential identity theft.
6. Complete online banking through secure channels and log out immediately after you have finished. Do not provide any account details to individuals over the internet or through email.
7. Install a firewall and keep it regularly updated. This will protect your computer from system attacks and port scan attempts by hackers looking for vulnerabilities.
If you follow the above advice you greater improve your personal security and minimize the chances of security breaches and identity theft. The best defense against malicious behavior is to take offensive action by installing appropriate security software and maintaining regular protocols when using sensitive personal details.
www.phishing-defense.com
Thursday, September 13, 2007
13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals
Like most web developers or SEO professionals, I use a vast array of tools to get the job done. I use a combination of desktop and web applications, some purchased and some free. Everyone I know has downloaded a free copy of Mozilla Firefox, but few realize that by installing some of the 1,500 free extensions they can eliminate the need for most of the other applications they currently use. Below are my 13 favorite extensions for web professionals (in no particular order):
HTML Validator (http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/) – validates web pages to the W3C HTML standards with a simple green check in the corner of the page if the page validates, a red check if it doesn’t, and a yellow exclamation point if there are warnings. It also includes an enhanced view of source code that allows you to see where errors are within the code.
FireFTP (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/) – free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. This eliminates a piece of software for those of you who use a separate program for FTP.
Professor X (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2823/) – lets you view header information without having to view source code. The page “slides” down and Professor X shows you the contents of the page's head element, including Meta, Script and Style content.
NikkelWHOIS (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2646/) –view the WHOIS information for any page by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.
IE Tab (http://ietab.mozdev.org) – sick of swapping between Internet Explorer and Firefox when testing out a web page you’re developing? With IE Tab you can view Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab!
FireBug (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/) – an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.
Codetech (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1002/) – web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing extension for anyone doing web design that doesn’t want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.
Server Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/) – easily switch between sites on your development and live servers by clicking the switch server icon.
SEO for Firefox (http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html) – pulls useful market research data right into Google's and Yahoo!'s search results, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS, and more. It also adds a few helpful links to the top of the search pages, including Google Trends, Google Traffic Estimator, and the Overture View Bid tool.
Yet Another Window Resizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2498/) – allows you to resize browser window to default screen resolutions.
AdSense Preview (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2132/) – preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting the ads up just to see what type of ads will show.
Screen grab (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/) – takes a screenshot of the webpage and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image.
Server Spy (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/) – indicates what brand of HTTP server (Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited site on the lower-right side of the browser.
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HTML Validator (http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/) – validates web pages to the W3C HTML standards with a simple green check in the corner of the page if the page validates, a red check if it doesn’t, and a yellow exclamation point if there are warnings. It also includes an enhanced view of source code that allows you to see where errors are within the code.
FireFTP (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/) – free, secure, cross-platform FTP client that provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. This eliminates a piece of software for those of you who use a separate program for FTP.
Professor X (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2823/) – lets you view header information without having to view source code. The page “slides” down and Professor X shows you the contents of the page's head element, including Meta, Script and Style content.
NikkelWHOIS (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2646/) –view the WHOIS information for any page by clicking the button on the top-right of the browser.
IE Tab (http://ietab.mozdev.org) – sick of swapping between Internet Explorer and Firefox when testing out a web page you’re developing? With IE Tab you can view Internet Explorer in a Firefox Tab!
FireBug (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/) – an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.
Codetech (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1002/) – web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing extension for anyone doing web design that doesn’t want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.
Server Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/) – easily switch between sites on your development and live servers by clicking the switch server icon.
SEO for Firefox (http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html) – pulls useful market research data right into Google's and Yahoo!'s search results, including Google PR, Age, links, Alexa rank, WHOIS, and more. It also adds a few helpful links to the top of the search pages, including Google Trends, Google Traffic Estimator, and the Overture View Bid tool.
Yet Another Window Resizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2498/) – allows you to resize browser window to default screen resolutions.
AdSense Preview (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2132/) – preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on that page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting the ads up just to see what type of ads will show.
Screen grab (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/) – takes a screenshot of the webpage and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image.
Server Spy (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2036/) – indicates what brand of HTTP server (Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited site on the lower-right side of the browser.
Adam McFarland owns iPrioritize - simple to-do lists that can be edited at any time from any place in the world. Email, print, check from your mobile phone, subscribe via RSS, and share with others.
http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm/134885?articleid=134885&title=seo%2Cmozilla%2Cfirefox
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Mozila Download - Easy To Use And Secure
Mozilla is a not-for-profit Foundation started in 2003 in California. Mozilla includes a group of people from around the world who are dedicated to improving the experience of all Internet users. Mozilla Firefox is free as are other Mozilla products, however, as a non-profit organization, Mozilla accepts donations. All Mozilla products have copyrights and members adhere stringently to copyright rules and laws.
Mozilla strives to develop the very best products possible by collaborating with others. Mozilla members believe the key to good use of the Internet is sharing information and technology openly and honestly. Mozilla welcomes input from users of their products regardless of their technical knowledge. Mozilla listens and responds to concerns, ideas and suggestions of those who use their products and those who have difficulty using a product. It is a goal of Mozilla to improve products, and educate and expand the knowledge of Internet users through communication and collaboration.
The most popular Mozilla product is the web browser, Firefox 2, released in June 2007. This version of the original Firefox is more powerful, with added features to bring Internet surfers and researchers a dependable and efficient Internet experience. When using Firefox, a tab with a close button will open each new web page. If, you close a tab and later want the page back, you will find the link in History under "Recently closed tabs."
What happens, if you open too many tabs? Mozilla Firefox handles this in a simple and efficient manner. No scary warnings, no deleting of your links, Firefox courteously, places scroll arrows on each side of your tabs and adds a button on the right side. Click the button and get a list of your open tabs, click on the one you want to open. When finished with a tabbed page, just click on the black X on the right side of the tab and the tab will close the web page.
Mozilla Firefox is very helpful when you want to find something on the web, but you are not certain what you need to type into the search bar. Firefox comes with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Answers and others to help you find what you need by making suggestions. Type a word or phrase into a search bar and click. A drop down menu will appear and there will be a list of suggestions to help you find your information. For instance, you want to find a list of places in Daytona Beach, type Daytona Beach, a list will appear with suggestions such as: attractions, churches, events, entertainment, hotels, museums, parks, etc. Click on one of these and receive pages of links from which to choose information. For great surfing, try Firefox.
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/mozila-download-easy-to-use-and-secure-198455.html
Mozilla strives to develop the very best products possible by collaborating with others. Mozilla members believe the key to good use of the Internet is sharing information and technology openly and honestly. Mozilla welcomes input from users of their products regardless of their technical knowledge. Mozilla listens and responds to concerns, ideas and suggestions of those who use their products and those who have difficulty using a product. It is a goal of Mozilla to improve products, and educate and expand the knowledge of Internet users through communication and collaboration.
The most popular Mozilla product is the web browser, Firefox 2, released in June 2007. This version of the original Firefox is more powerful, with added features to bring Internet surfers and researchers a dependable and efficient Internet experience. When using Firefox, a tab with a close button will open each new web page. If, you close a tab and later want the page back, you will find the link in History under "Recently closed tabs."
What happens, if you open too many tabs? Mozilla Firefox handles this in a simple and efficient manner. No scary warnings, no deleting of your links, Firefox courteously, places scroll arrows on each side of your tabs and adds a button on the right side. Click the button and get a list of your open tabs, click on the one you want to open. When finished with a tabbed page, just click on the black X on the right side of the tab and the tab will close the web page.
Mozilla Firefox is very helpful when you want to find something on the web, but you are not certain what you need to type into the search bar. Firefox comes with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Answers and others to help you find what you need by making suggestions. Type a word or phrase into a search bar and click. A drop down menu will appear and there will be a list of suggestions to help you find your information. For instance, you want to find a list of places in Daytona Beach, type Daytona Beach, a list will appear with suggestions such as: attractions, churches, events, entertainment, hotels, museums, parks, etc. Click on one of these and receive pages of links from which to choose information. For great surfing, try Firefox.
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/mozila-download-easy-to-use-and-secure-198455.html
Why you should use Firefox
By now, just about everyone has heard of Firefox, and most understand that it's an
Internet browser similar to Internet Explorer. You've also probably been told that you should use it because it's more secure. But what does that mean to you? Why should you give up Internet Explorer, one of the most familiar programs that you use on a daily basis so that you can say you're "more secure"? Well, I'll tell you why, and also explain dozens of other benefits that Firefox offers that will make your online surfing safer and definitely more entertaining.
The topic of security between Firefox and Internet Explorer really grinds down to open source versus proprietary software, which I will only touch base with at this time. Naturally the two programs have completely different features, but the "secure" part refers to the architecture of how the programs are built and how quickly newly discovered security flaws are patched. The beauty of an open source project, like Firefox, is that countless programmers world-wide contribute their expertise to continually enhance Firefox to perform as stable and secure as possible. When a security flaw is discovered, it is often patched within hours of the discovery. Very often by the same person or persons that discovered the glitch. With proprietary software like Internet Explorer, a potential security issue has to be reported to Microsoft, researched, and then their team will develop a patch and release it hopefully within the month. Some mischievous weasel seeking to hijack some data, or otherwise cause trouble is very aware of this and will exploit IE as their number one target. Firefox's code is reviewed by experienced programmers across the globe to ensure safe Internet browsing. Assuming your a "hacker" (I use the term loosely) and your goal was a malicious attack on an unsuspecting user's workstation, would you attempt to crack a program written by a global army of coders, or Microsoft's IE team? That's what it means when they say Firefox is a "more secure" browser.
There are also several features that set Firefox apart from it's competitors. Tabbed browsing was an idea that Firefox popularized, and is now emulated by several other browsers fighting to usurp Firefox from its ever-growing command in the ongoing browser war. This function enables you to open up "tabs" in the same browser window so that you can view several pages without having to launch the same program several times. Internet Explorer 7 now offers this exact same feature. However, have you ever tried to completely erase your tracks from the browser history? In Internet Explorer 6 there about so many places you have to go (history, temporary files, cookies, etc...), and they are all in different locations. Firefox makes this easy by going to "Tools - Clear Private Data", and it swipes clean all your personal information out of the program (another idea IE 7 copied). You can also customize the placement of the toolbars and icons, and add, remove, or rearrange buttons the way you want them. For example, if you want to add a button to open a new tab, you go to "View - Toolbars - Customize" then drag and drop the "New Tab" button to where you want it to sit in the navigation bar. This way you won't have to hit "File - New Tab" or press "Ctrl+T" to open new tabs. The same process can be repeated for the other available buttons. For a complete list of Firefox shortcuts click here.
Now comes the best part of the Firefox revolution; themes and extensions. Extensions are basically additions to the browser created by various contributors that enhance or add features to the browser. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of extensions available so I will only mention some of the more popular ones. DownThemAll! is an incredible extension that will enable you to download every picture on a website, instead of having to click each pic, right-click, and choose "Save As". Forecastfox allows you to specify a specific location and then displays the current temperature complete with a clever symbol of the current weather (sunshine, clouds, etc...) in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox. Another more entertaining extension is StumbleUpon. Ever wonder how other people find all the cool stuff on the Internet? Using StumbleUpon, you can specify your individual interests, and when you click the "Stumble" button it will take you to a random page in one of the categories you specified that others have ranked as "Thumbs Up". From there you can rate it thumbs up, thumbs down, or simply Stumble again. Just try it, you'll see what I mean and how fun it can be. There are several other extensions that I'm sure you'll find interesting, just go here to check them out.
Firefox Themes allows you to customize the look and feel of the browser design. Themes can be thought of the same way some other programs refer to "skins". You can select a theme that is more sleak, perhaps reflects your personality, or stick with the default. The best way I can describe this awesome feature is to go there and browse around.
But how do you keep up with the latest versions of Firefox, its themes, and its extensions? When a new version of Firefox is released, it will actually download the updates and notify you that the next time Firefox is restarted it will automatically install the newest version; which is exactly what it does. To update themes and extensions, go to "Tools-Extensions" and "Tools-Themes", respectively, and click "Find Updates". If there are any new versions available, you click "Install" on each one and the next time you restart Firefox you'll have the latest and greatest version.
Hopefully by now you understand that no matter what proprietary browsers do to try to keep up, it's hard to compete with the collective ideas of the entire world. Not to mention that Google heavily endorses Firefox, so many of the gadgets offered work hand-in-hand with some of Google's products. These techneaks should help you add some personality to your browser, what it means to be "more secure", and how to have a little more fun on your side of the Internet.
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/why-you-should-use-firefox-38632.html
Internet browser similar to Internet Explorer. You've also probably been told that you should use it because it's more secure. But what does that mean to you? Why should you give up Internet Explorer, one of the most familiar programs that you use on a daily basis so that you can say you're "more secure"? Well, I'll tell you why, and also explain dozens of other benefits that Firefox offers that will make your online surfing safer and definitely more entertaining.
The topic of security between Firefox and Internet Explorer really grinds down to open source versus proprietary software, which I will only touch base with at this time. Naturally the two programs have completely different features, but the "secure" part refers to the architecture of how the programs are built and how quickly newly discovered security flaws are patched. The beauty of an open source project, like Firefox, is that countless programmers world-wide contribute their expertise to continually enhance Firefox to perform as stable and secure as possible. When a security flaw is discovered, it is often patched within hours of the discovery. Very often by the same person or persons that discovered the glitch. With proprietary software like Internet Explorer, a potential security issue has to be reported to Microsoft, researched, and then their team will develop a patch and release it hopefully within the month. Some mischievous weasel seeking to hijack some data, or otherwise cause trouble is very aware of this and will exploit IE as their number one target. Firefox's code is reviewed by experienced programmers across the globe to ensure safe Internet browsing. Assuming your a "hacker" (I use the term loosely) and your goal was a malicious attack on an unsuspecting user's workstation, would you attempt to crack a program written by a global army of coders, or Microsoft's IE team? That's what it means when they say Firefox is a "more secure" browser.
There are also several features that set Firefox apart from it's competitors. Tabbed browsing was an idea that Firefox popularized, and is now emulated by several other browsers fighting to usurp Firefox from its ever-growing command in the ongoing browser war. This function enables you to open up "tabs" in the same browser window so that you can view several pages without having to launch the same program several times. Internet Explorer 7 now offers this exact same feature. However, have you ever tried to completely erase your tracks from the browser history? In Internet Explorer 6 there about so many places you have to go (history, temporary files, cookies, etc...), and they are all in different locations. Firefox makes this easy by going to "Tools - Clear Private Data", and it swipes clean all your personal information out of the program (another idea IE 7 copied). You can also customize the placement of the toolbars and icons, and add, remove, or rearrange buttons the way you want them. For example, if you want to add a button to open a new tab, you go to "View - Toolbars - Customize" then drag and drop the "New Tab" button to where you want it to sit in the navigation bar. This way you won't have to hit "File - New Tab" or press "Ctrl+T" to open new tabs. The same process can be repeated for the other available buttons. For a complete list of Firefox shortcuts click here.
Now comes the best part of the Firefox revolution; themes and extensions. Extensions are basically additions to the browser created by various contributors that enhance or add features to the browser. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of extensions available so I will only mention some of the more popular ones. DownThemAll! is an incredible extension that will enable you to download every picture on a website, instead of having to click each pic, right-click, and choose "Save As". Forecastfox allows you to specify a specific location and then displays the current temperature complete with a clever symbol of the current weather (sunshine, clouds, etc...) in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox. Another more entertaining extension is StumbleUpon. Ever wonder how other people find all the cool stuff on the Internet? Using StumbleUpon, you can specify your individual interests, and when you click the "Stumble" button it will take you to a random page in one of the categories you specified that others have ranked as "Thumbs Up". From there you can rate it thumbs up, thumbs down, or simply Stumble again. Just try it, you'll see what I mean and how fun it can be. There are several other extensions that I'm sure you'll find interesting, just go here to check them out.
Firefox Themes allows you to customize the look and feel of the browser design. Themes can be thought of the same way some other programs refer to "skins". You can select a theme that is more sleak, perhaps reflects your personality, or stick with the default. The best way I can describe this awesome feature is to go there and browse around.
But how do you keep up with the latest versions of Firefox, its themes, and its extensions? When a new version of Firefox is released, it will actually download the updates and notify you that the next time Firefox is restarted it will automatically install the newest version; which is exactly what it does. To update themes and extensions, go to "Tools-Extensions" and "Tools-Themes", respectively, and click "Find Updates". If there are any new versions available, you click "Install" on each one and the next time you restart Firefox you'll have the latest and greatest version.
Hopefully by now you understand that no matter what proprietary browsers do to try to keep up, it's hard to compete with the collective ideas of the entire world. Not to mention that Google heavily endorses Firefox, so many of the gadgets offered work hand-in-hand with some of Google's products. These techneaks should help you add some personality to your browser, what it means to be "more secure", and how to have a little more fun on your side of the Internet.
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/why-you-should-use-firefox-38632.html
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Reasons Why Firefox Mozilla Outweighs the Other Web Browsers
by Manuel Simao
Reasons Why Firefox Mozilla Outweighs the Other Web Browsers
Reasons Why Firefox Mozilla Outweighs the Other Web Browsers
by Manuel Simao
Firefox was launched as the battling sword of Mozilla against the various web browsers and more specifically Internet Explorer by Microsoft. Internet Explorer of Microsoft enjoyed the monopoly in the browser market for many years until Firefox was launched, and now IE has to even share a major chunk of its market value with Firefox. So what makes Firefox unanimously acceptable over internet explorer or any other web browser?
Firstly it allows tabbed browsing. This is of tremendous help to someone who wants to exploit every minute of using the internet and it is also much neater and easier to view 10 tabs in a single window instead of viewing 10 different windows! Firefox works equally efficiently on different operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux and BSD. Another added feature in Firefox is that it has a built-in download manager. With this feature you can pause, resume or stop a downloading process as and when you like.
Firefox also provides extensive page-control. You can block ads, pop-ups, images, etc. you can also toggle with the font type and color of the websites. Firefox also provides a unique search bar with which you can search on a minimum of 10 different search engines just with the click of a button. This browser also aids in spell-check which is vital for blogging and supports online form filling; this feature is absent in internet explorer.
Apart from all this, the most satisfying and convincing benefit is that Firefox provides security on net like no other web browser. Microsoft Internet Explorer has been exploited number of times by various security threats like Spyware or any other perilous installations. Mozilla Firefox blocks such installations and is less susceptible to security breaches. The reason for this is that Firefox uses a completely different technique for security. It does not depend on any security zones or digital signatures, etc. It also does not have the ActiveX component which is used by many websites to automatically install malicious content on you computer by executing some destructive scripts.
Firefox is a completely open source project. Therefore coders can manipulate the code to add new extensions, plug-ins, bug fixers, or any other noted feature to suit the client requirements. You can even customize your Firefox browser by using the various available themes.
Thus for intense security on the net and for all of the above mentioned features, Mozilla Firefox certainly overshadows any other existing web browsers.
Firefox is the Free 2006 award winning browser designed to surf the web easier, faster, & more secure. Get Instant Access With This 100% Free Download! It's easy, just click the link below to get started:
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These are comments of firefox user:
Shanti says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
I'll admit, I was a little reluctant to switch over to Firefox.
But now that I'm a full-fledged Firefox fanboy, I can't imagine going back to *those days*.
Give Firefox a try for 30 days, and if you're not completely satisfied, no -- make that in love with Firefox by then, well, I'll be surprised. :)
Gabriel says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
Firefox is really easy to use. It is fast, standards compliant (meaning web sites will look the way they're supposed to) and much more secure than IE. You should switch today.
Jim Bob says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
It R the coolest ever! I get excited everytime I use it! Secretly, I love the tabbed browsing...it makes me a happy person...a very happy person...happier than most people I know (who, I might add, use Internet Explorer like most unhappy people).
Biiaru says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
Firefox, and all open source programs, are better because they can be fixed quickly. Microsoft might take days, weeks, or even months to fix a critical security flaw in Internet Explorer, Windows XP, or Office. With many open source applications available today, and with the number of programmers that are moving to open source development structires, they can be fixed in hours, or even minutes.
http://firefox.reasons.googlepages.com/home
Reasons Why Firefox Mozilla Outweighs the Other Web Browsers
Reasons Why Firefox Mozilla Outweighs the Other Web Browsers
by Manuel Simao
Firefox was launched as the battling sword of Mozilla against the various web browsers and more specifically Internet Explorer by Microsoft. Internet Explorer of Microsoft enjoyed the monopoly in the browser market for many years until Firefox was launched, and now IE has to even share a major chunk of its market value with Firefox. So what makes Firefox unanimously acceptable over internet explorer or any other web browser?
Firstly it allows tabbed browsing. This is of tremendous help to someone who wants to exploit every minute of using the internet and it is also much neater and easier to view 10 tabs in a single window instead of viewing 10 different windows! Firefox works equally efficiently on different operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux and BSD. Another added feature in Firefox is that it has a built-in download manager. With this feature you can pause, resume or stop a downloading process as and when you like.
Firefox also provides extensive page-control. You can block ads, pop-ups, images, etc. you can also toggle with the font type and color of the websites. Firefox also provides a unique search bar with which you can search on a minimum of 10 different search engines just with the click of a button. This browser also aids in spell-check which is vital for blogging and supports online form filling; this feature is absent in internet explorer.
Apart from all this, the most satisfying and convincing benefit is that Firefox provides security on net like no other web browser. Microsoft Internet Explorer has been exploited number of times by various security threats like Spyware or any other perilous installations. Mozilla Firefox blocks such installations and is less susceptible to security breaches. The reason for this is that Firefox uses a completely different technique for security. It does not depend on any security zones or digital signatures, etc. It also does not have the ActiveX component which is used by many websites to automatically install malicious content on you computer by executing some destructive scripts.
Firefox is a completely open source project. Therefore coders can manipulate the code to add new extensions, plug-ins, bug fixers, or any other noted feature to suit the client requirements. You can even customize your Firefox browser by using the various available themes.
Thus for intense security on the net and for all of the above mentioned features, Mozilla Firefox certainly overshadows any other existing web browsers.
Firefox is the Free 2006 award winning browser designed to surf the web easier, faster, & more secure. Get Instant Access With This 100% Free Download! It's easy, just click the link below to get started:
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These are comments of firefox user:
Shanti says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
I'll admit, I was a little reluctant to switch over to Firefox.
But now that I'm a full-fledged Firefox fanboy, I can't imagine going back to *those days*.
Give Firefox a try for 30 days, and if you're not completely satisfied, no -- make that in love with Firefox by then, well, I'll be surprised. :)
Gabriel says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
Firefox is really easy to use. It is fast, standards compliant (meaning web sites will look the way they're supposed to) and much more secure than IE. You should switch today.
Jim Bob says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
It R the coolest ever! I get excited everytime I use it! Secretly, I love the tabbed browsing...it makes me a happy person...a very happy person...happier than most people I know (who, I might add, use Internet Explorer like most unhappy people).
Biiaru says, I personally recommend that you use Firefox because:
Firefox, and all open source programs, are better because they can be fixed quickly. Microsoft might take days, weeks, or even months to fix a critical security flaw in Internet Explorer, Windows XP, or Office. With many open source applications available today, and with the number of programmers that are moving to open source development structires, they can be fixed in hours, or even minutes.
http://firefox.reasons.googlepages.com/home
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Some Tips To Speed Up Firefox
by Tim Childree
Mozilla Firefox is an excellent web browser that does a much better job than Internet Explorer when it comes to protecting your privacy and computer security. Unfortunately, Firefox can sometimes be slower than Internet Explorer. The speed difference between the two browsers is one of the main reasons why most people do not change their browser from the quicker yet more vulnerable Internet Explorer to the slower but more secure Firefox browser, the other reason being that Firefox introduces many new features that simply take more time to learn than some users are willing to invest. To get the best of both worlds - speed and security of browsing - you can download Mozilla Firefox and speed it up with these tips.
Pipelining
This tweak is very easy to accomplish. On your Firefox web browser address bar, type about:config, then press Enter. Scroll through the list of values and look for these three crucial pipelining settings: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. You can use the filter to easily find each of these entries.
For the pipelining entry, you should change the value to true. Just double click the false value to make this change. For the maxrequests entry, the default setting is four. Change the value to your desired number. This value determines how many page requests Firefox is capable of making. You can go as high as 8 to speed up your tabbed browsing. Finally, go to proxy.pipelining and change the value from false to true.
Doing the above steps will give you greater browsing speeds by allowing Firefox to process and send requests simultaneously instead of waiting until a response has been received from a previous request. This will also reduce network bottlenecks by packing multiple requests into a single data packet.
Increase Your Firefox Memory Cache
Your computer will automatically allot a memory cache for your Firefox browser. Increasing your browser cache will actually increase the amount of objects that your browser can retain, which cuts down on time spent retrieving information from your hard disk or a web server. As a result, your frequently visited pages will load much faster.
You can modify the cache settings by going to the Firefox tools menu and clicking on Options. From here, click on the "Advanced" tab, then the "Network" tab. On the network tab, you can specify any cache size you like, but it is doubtful you will need more than about 32 Megabytes of cache.
Block Unwanted Advertisements
One of the best ways to speed up Firefox is by using an Ad Removal extension, such as AdBlock Plus. AdBlock Plus can be installed at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865, and it works to block annoying banner ads. AdBlock Plus also features a "learning" feature, meaning you can right-click on unblocked ads and set them to be blocked, as well. Even with no other optimizations, Firefox will load most pages much faster than Internet Explorer when using AdBlock Plus, because it does not have to worry about downloading all of the annoying, unwanted ads that clutter up so many webpages.
Another plugin, called FasterFox, implements a large number of tweaks based on increasing the speed of your browsing. FasterFox is available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269.
With these tips, you can speed up Firefox considerably, so don't let the slow performance you may have experienced deter you any longer. Firefox works to provide a much safer browsing experience than Internet Explorer, and its plugin interface allows for unprecedented levels of customization and convenience.
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Mozilla Firefox is an excellent web browser that does a much better job than Internet Explorer when it comes to protecting your privacy and computer security. Unfortunately, Firefox can sometimes be slower than Internet Explorer. The speed difference between the two browsers is one of the main reasons why most people do not change their browser from the quicker yet more vulnerable Internet Explorer to the slower but more secure Firefox browser, the other reason being that Firefox introduces many new features that simply take more time to learn than some users are willing to invest. To get the best of both worlds - speed and security of browsing - you can download Mozilla Firefox and speed it up with these tips.
Pipelining
This tweak is very easy to accomplish. On your Firefox web browser address bar, type about:config, then press Enter. Scroll through the list of values and look for these three crucial pipelining settings: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. You can use the filter to easily find each of these entries.
For the pipelining entry, you should change the value to true. Just double click the false value to make this change. For the maxrequests entry, the default setting is four. Change the value to your desired number. This value determines how many page requests Firefox is capable of making. You can go as high as 8 to speed up your tabbed browsing. Finally, go to proxy.pipelining and change the value from false to true.
Doing the above steps will give you greater browsing speeds by allowing Firefox to process and send requests simultaneously instead of waiting until a response has been received from a previous request. This will also reduce network bottlenecks by packing multiple requests into a single data packet.
Increase Your Firefox Memory Cache
Your computer will automatically allot a memory cache for your Firefox browser. Increasing your browser cache will actually increase the amount of objects that your browser can retain, which cuts down on time spent retrieving information from your hard disk or a web server. As a result, your frequently visited pages will load much faster.
You can modify the cache settings by going to the Firefox tools menu and clicking on Options. From here, click on the "Advanced" tab, then the "Network" tab. On the network tab, you can specify any cache size you like, but it is doubtful you will need more than about 32 Megabytes of cache.
Block Unwanted Advertisements
One of the best ways to speed up Firefox is by using an Ad Removal extension, such as AdBlock Plus. AdBlock Plus can be installed at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865, and it works to block annoying banner ads. AdBlock Plus also features a "learning" feature, meaning you can right-click on unblocked ads and set them to be blocked, as well. Even with no other optimizations, Firefox will load most pages much faster than Internet Explorer when using AdBlock Plus, because it does not have to worry about downloading all of the annoying, unwanted ads that clutter up so many webpages.
Another plugin, called FasterFox, implements a large number of tweaks based on increasing the speed of your browsing. FasterFox is available from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269.
With these tips, you can speed up Firefox considerably, so don't let the slow performance you may have experienced deter you any longer. Firefox works to provide a much safer browsing experience than Internet Explorer, and its plugin interface allows for unprecedented levels of customization and convenience.
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The code base for Netscape Communicator Internet suite was given the Netscape Public License, which is a free software or open source license in 1998. The application developed from this was named Mozilla, as per the codename of the original Netscape Navigator, and was released finally on June 5, 2002.
The suite was well known as the free/open source base of the Netscape versions 6 and 7; its underlying code base became the base of many standalone applications. The Gecko layout engine requires a special mention here, since it contributed the most, even in the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is marketed as "Mozilla Suite or Mozilla Application Suite.
Though the Mozilla Foundation maintains the suite no longer, it has been unofficially replaced by SeaMonkey, developed by the Mozilla community and based on the Mozilla source code.
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The official name of the Mozilla Application Suite developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It is also the public and original name but got changed recently to SeaMonkey suite. In informal terms, the name found usage in combination with other phrases related to the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corporation and the various application software that were related to it.
The code base for Netscape Communicator Internet suite was given the Netscape Public License, which is a free software or open source license in 1998. The application developed from this was named Mozilla, as per the codename of the original Netscape Navigator, and was released finally on June 5, 2002.
The suite was well known as the free/open source base of the Netscape versions 6 and 7; its underlying code base became the base of many standalone applications. The Gecko layout engine requires a special mention here, since it contributed the most, even in the Mozilla Foundation's flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird. To distinguish the suite from the standalone products, the suite is marketed as "Mozilla Suite or Mozilla Application Suite.
Though the Mozilla Foundation maintains the suite no longer, it has been unofficially replaced by SeaMonkey, developed by the Mozilla community and based on the Mozilla source code.
The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla is now even faster, more secure, and totally customizable to one's online needs. This is primarily because Mozilla Firefox free download is available in a total of forty-two languages ranging from Afrikaans to Turkish.
Mozilla Firefox free download is available from a number of websites but it is always better to stick to a few; that includes CNet and the official Mozilla Firefox site. The latter, however, also offers exclusive membership benefits with every Mozilla Firefox free download, allowing:
* Free access to Tips & Tricks for Firefox Browser.
* Free Installation Guide & Videos for the Mozilla Firefox free download.
* Free Technical Support for the Mozilla Firefox free download.
* Mozilla Firefox free download compliant software.
* Software news and other important information.
* An access to Members Only News and Help Forums.
Why should one go for Mozilla Firefox free download?
* A Mozilla Firefox free download is guaranteed to provide faster and more secure browsing. * A Mozilla Firefox free download comes with an enhanced, automatic popup blocking feature.
* Firefox and Google collaboration brings forth a smarter searching technology with a built in Google search toolbar with every Mozilla Firefox free download.
* The probable security threat in the Mozilla Firefox free download extension feature can be tackled very quickly and without any hassle.
* A Mozilla Firefox free download installs the most secure web browser because patches for the security threats are available readily.
* A Mozilla Firefox free download is customizable to an extent formerly unknown.
- Additional Benefits
* Free Firefox users guide
Mozilla Firefox free download makes available a free copy of the FireFox users guide; an easy to read electronic book with step-by-step instructions on how to download, install and set-up the Mozilla Firefox free download as well as easy instructions on how to use tabs, download extensions and even make the browser perform faster.
* Free Firefox How To... Video
Provides an on-screen, step-by-step set of instructions for downloading and using the Mozilla Firefox free download. Narrations by the Firefox experts also explain the work-procedure and the consecutive steps.
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The critics of the Firefox web browsing software application work on the presumption that the United States of America is equivalent to the entire world. The United States of America is just one country in the entire world. Although the country is a very big, prosperous country and powerful country, it still is one country of the more than two hundred countries on this planet.
Simply because the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software application is extremely popular in the United States of America does not mean that the Firefox web browsing software applications does not have a significant share in the web browser market of the whole world.
Analysis of the web surfers in Europe reveals that the market share of the Firefox web browsing software application exceeds 25%. The survey further reveals that the market share of the Firefox web browser in the East European countries that were a part of the former Soviet Union is in excess of 50 %.
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While the global market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application is in excess of 80%, the actual share on the ground is far less than what is being claimed.
In the east European countries, the market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application cannot exceed 50%. Of course, the Safari web browsing software application and other web browsing software applications have also penetrated the web browser market.
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As far as the European nations are concerned, the market share of the Firefox web browsing software applications said to be close to 25%. That is to say, one fourth of the web browser market has been captured by the Firefox web browsing software application.
This is far more than the global market share of the Firefox web browser. Further, the scenario for the Firefox web browsing software application looks good because the Firefox web browser offers fantastic service.
Despite the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 7.0, the Firefox web browser has retained its market share. With the release of Firefox version 3.0 pending, there is no doubt that the market share of the Firefox web browsing software application will increase further.
There are many reasons why the Firefox web browsing software application is a popular web browser. Now there is no doubt that the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software application is popular in the United States of America.
However, its popularity has nothing do with the merit of the web browsing software application. As far as the masses are concerned, the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is most unsafe web browser. In the United States of America extraneous factors are boosting the market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application.
The web browsing software applications has a high market share in the United States of America simply because the corporate users are afraid to shift from the Internet Explorer to another web browsing software application.
With many companies installing Microsoft products into their computers, installing the Internet Explorer web browsing software application becomes a necessity even though the Firefox web browser is a more popular web browser.
This is not the case with Mozilla Firefox. If the Firefox web browser is popular, it is so because it is a good web browser.
The critics of the Firefox web browsing software application work on the presumption that the United States of America is equivalent to the entire world. The United States of America is just one country in the entire world. Although the country is a very big, prosperous country and powerful country, it still is one country of the more than two hundred countries on this planet.
Simply because the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software application is extremely popular in the United States of America does not mean that the Firefox web browsing software applications does not have a significant share in the web browser market of the whole world.
Analysis of the web surfers in Europe reveals that the market share of the Firefox web browsing software application exceeds 25%. The survey further reveals that the market share of the Firefox web browser in the East European countries that were a part of the former Soviet Union is in excess of 50 %.
That is to say, the Firefox web browsing software application is being used by more than half the surfers of the World Wide Web in countries like the Lithuania, Estonia etc.
While the global market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application is in excess of 80%, the actual share on the ground is far less than what is being claimed.
In the east European countries, the market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application cannot exceed 50%. Of course, the Safari web browsing software application and other web browsing software applications have also penetrated the web browser market.
This implies that the market share of the Firefox web browsing software application must be more than the market share of the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software application in the east European countries. you can get free firefox download.
As far as the European nations are concerned, the market share of the Firefox web browsing software applications said to be close to 25%. That is to say, one fourth of the web browser market has been captured by the Firefox web browsing software application.
This is far more than the global market share of the Firefox web browser. Further, the scenario for the Firefox web browsing software application looks good because the Firefox web browser offers fantastic service.
Despite the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 7.0, the Firefox web browser has retained its market share. With the release of Firefox version 3.0 pending, there is no doubt that the market share of the Firefox web browsing software application will increase further.
There are many reasons why the Firefox web browsing software application is a popular web browser. Now there is no doubt that the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software application is popular in the United States of America.
However, its popularity has nothing do with the merit of the web browsing software application. As far as the masses are concerned, the Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is most unsafe web browser. In the United States of America extraneous factors are boosting the market share of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application.
The web browsing software applications has a high market share in the United States of America simply because the corporate users are afraid to shift from the Internet Explorer to another web browsing software application.
With many companies installing Microsoft products into their computers, installing the Internet Explorer web browsing software application becomes a necessity even though the Firefox web browser is a more popular web browser.
This is not the case with Mozilla Firefox. If the Firefox web browser is popular, it is so because it is a good web browser.
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Enjoy a Better Web Experience
There's a lot to do on the Web, and Firefox 2 is full of helpful features to make your time online more productive.
Improved Tabbed Browsing We love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don't worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of Recently Closed Tabs. You'll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.
Spell Checking Sometimes you're in a rush, and can't remember if it's before or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.
Search Suggestions Many search engines built into Firefox will actually suggest search terms for what you're looking for. Just start typing into the Search bar, and a list of suggestions will appear. (Works for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com.)
Session Restore Losing your place while you're doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you'll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you'll never lose your place again.
Web Feeds (RSS) What do news headlines, indie rock podcasts, and pictures of kittens have in common? They're all things that you can subscribe to with Web feeds. Firefox 2 gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you've installed on your computer, or through a Web service such as My Yahoo!, Bloglines or Google Reader.
Live Titles 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. .
Integrated Search Firefox helps you find whatever it is that you're looking for. The Search bar comes pre-loaded with search engines for Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you've chosen. You can select a new search engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.
Live Bookmarks Firefox Live Bookmarks let you view Web feeds such as news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu. With one glance, quickly review the latest headlines from your favorite sites and click to go directly to the articles that interest you.
Pop-up Blocker Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you're viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox's pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen. Streamlined Interface
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The user interface in Firefox 2 has been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
Accessibility Firefox delivers a better browsing experience for everyone - including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft's accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro's Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific's JAWS. Firefox 2 (Windows version) meets US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
Stay Secure on the Web The Web is a great place, but sometimes you'll encounter bad people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, hackers, scammers and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and passionate community to protect you 24/7.
Phishing Protection Phishing Protection takes Firefox's security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as a ?phishing? site) Firefox will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for.
Open Source, More Secure At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.
Automated Update Firefox's update system always checks to see if you're running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.
Protection from Spyware Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you what's happening so that you can stay in control of your computer.
Clear Private Data Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with the ?Clear Private Data? tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox it's gone - whether you are using your own computer or one at the library.
Personalize Your Browser Choose from thousands of useful Add-ons that enhance Firefox. It's easy to personalize Firefox 2 to make it your own.
An Add-on for Everyone You can choose from over 1,000 add-ons at the Firefox Add-ons Web site. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison shop, share bookmarks with your friends, see the weather in a corner of your browser, write to your weblog, get news, listen to music - all from inside the browser you already love. You can even change the appearance of your browser - from buttons to colors and fonts - so that it matches your own personal style.
Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Firefox 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.
Search Engine Manager You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search engines in the Search bar. Firefox 2 will also detect when a Web site has a search engine that can be installed, and will install it for you with a single click in the drop-down menu.
(source: mozilla.org)
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Firefox Tuning
Rise up the speed of your Firefox Browser:
Open the configuration menu by typing in the following into the field where you normally fill in the URLs:
About:config
In the config menu you have to set up the following changes:
- network.http.pipelining (put ?true?) - network.http.proxy.pipelining (put ?true?) - network.http.pipelining.maxrequests put on 100 - network.http.max-connections 48 - network.http.max-connections-per-server 16 - network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8 - network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4
You save the changes by clicking the right button of your mouse somewhere on the screen and choose new -> integer from the menu. Now you have to write nglayout.initialpaint.delay into the popup and type in number 0 into the next window.mozilla firefox download http://firefoxtoyou.blogspot.com/
That?s it, now you are able to surf much faster threw the internet with your Firefox browser!
Firefox Features
Enjoy a Better Web Experience
There's a lot to do on the Web, and Firefox 2 is full of helpful features to make your time online more productive.
Improved Tabbed Browsing We love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don't worry - if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of Recently Closed Tabs. You'll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.
Spell Checking Sometimes you're in a rush, and can't remember if it's before or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.
Search Suggestions Many search engines built into Firefox will actually suggest search terms for what you're looking for. Just start typing into the Search bar, and a list of suggestions will appear. (Works for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com.)
Session Restore Losing your place while you're doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you'll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you'll never lose your place again.
Web Feeds (RSS) What do news headlines, indie rock podcasts, and pictures of kittens have in common? They're all things that you can subscribe to with Web feeds. Firefox 2 gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you've installed on your computer, or through a Web service such as My Yahoo!, Bloglines or Google Reader.
Live Titles 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. .
Integrated Search Firefox helps you find whatever it is that you're looking for. The Search bar comes pre-loaded with search engines for Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you've chosen. You can select a new search engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.
Live Bookmarks Firefox Live Bookmarks let you view Web feeds such as news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu. With one glance, quickly review the latest headlines from your favorite sites and click to go directly to the articles that interest you.
Pop-up Blocker Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you're viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox's pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen. Streamlined Interface
>> Firefox 2.0 Download
The user interface in Firefox 2 has been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
Accessibility Firefox delivers a better browsing experience for everyone - including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft's accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro's Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific's JAWS. Firefox 2 (Windows version) meets US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
Stay Secure on the Web The Web is a great place, but sometimes you'll encounter bad people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, hackers, scammers and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and passionate community to protect you 24/7.
Phishing Protection Phishing Protection takes Firefox's security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as a ?phishing? site) Firefox will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for.
Open Source, More Secure At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.
Automated Update Firefox's update system always checks to see if you're running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.
Protection from Spyware Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you what's happening so that you can stay in control of your computer.
Clear Private Data Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with the ?Clear Private Data? tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox it's gone - whether you are using your own computer or one at the library.
Personalize Your Browser Choose from thousands of useful Add-ons that enhance Firefox. It's easy to personalize Firefox 2 to make it your own.
An Add-on for Everyone You can choose from over 1,000 add-ons at the Firefox Add-ons Web site. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison shop, share bookmarks with your friends, see the weather in a corner of your browser, write to your weblog, get news, listen to music - all from inside the browser you already love. You can even change the appearance of your browser - from buttons to colors and fonts - so that it matches your own personal style.
Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Firefox 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.
Search Engine Manager You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search engines in the Search bar. Firefox 2 will also detect when a Web site has a search engine that can be installed, and will install it for you with a single click in the drop-down menu.
(source: mozilla.org)
>> Firefox 2.0 Download
Firefox Tuning
Rise up the speed of your Firefox Browser:
Open the configuration menu by typing in the following into the field where you normally fill in the URLs:
About:config
In the config menu you have to set up the following changes:
- network.http.pipelining (put ?true?) - network.http.proxy.pipelining (put ?true?) - network.http.pipelining.maxrequests put on 100 - network.http.max-connections 48 - network.http.max-connections-per-server 16 - network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8 - network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4
You save the changes by clicking the right button of your mouse somewhere on the screen and choose new -> integer from the menu. Now you have to write nglayout.initialpaint.delay into the popup and type in number 0 into the next window.mozilla firefox download http://firefoxtoyou.blogspot.com/
That?s it, now you are able to surf much faster threw the internet with your Firefox browser!
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