Should Be Using Firefox? The Top 5 Reasons Why.
Michael Primius
Almost everybody in the computing industry agrees that Firefox has better support for standards than Internet Explorer. This means that web pages created using those standards will be shown exactly the same way in different browsers.
Instead of stuffing many features into the product, Firefox was built with a solid foundation and has the ability to get new functionality in the form of "plug-ins", which are installed by users when they need them.
There are many reasons to use Firefox, but these are the most important:
1. Respect of Standards. Firefox works following the standards dictated by the W3C Consortium, meaning that all pages built with those standards should be shown exactly the same in all browsers that respect those standards. Microsoft included functionality with the intention to keep users from using other browsers, which is felt as "bad behavior" by the programming community in general.
2. Improvement and continuous development. Internet Explorer developed many versions of his browser through 1,995 till 2,001 and then, when Internet Explorer got more than 90% market share, developments stopped until recently, when they started to lose market share. Also, Microsoft wasn't fair in the war because they included Explorer in every product they could, while Netscape (the competing browser at the time) couldn't do anything similar.
3. Firefox is well designed for security. Internet Explorer is so insecure that even the CERT (Computer Emergency and Response Team) a high level security organization from the government, told people that they should be using anything but Internet Explorer. The problem is that Internet Explorer allows the execution of programs and this is an extremely high security risk. You can read the article here: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998
4. Mozilla develops more solutions. The Mozilla Foundation is not worried about market share and develops useful programs as free Open Source, meaning that everybody could look at the source could if they wish. Not only they developed Firefox, but also, Thunderbird (to read email) NVU (a program to edit Web Pages) and many other excellent and useful software.
5. Free Open Source. Maybe you feel safe without knowing what is running inside Microsoft products, but many people not. Besides free, when all other things are equal (or better by he way!), always beats paying for something.
While all this reasons are important, you should be using Firefox primarily because it is more secure and provides a better browsing experience than Internet Explorer. Maybe Microsoft will redesign or rewrite completely Internet Explorer in some future to be a more stable, but you can wait or start using a superior product that gets better every day, immediately. Download Firefox and feel the difference now.
Copyright 2007 - Michael Primius has 4 years of experience commenting about http://modzilla.safecomputer.org/ Modzilla and the http://foxfire.safecomputer.org/ Foxfire browser. Get it now and enjoy a free course to keep secure on the net. ---1--- You can get a http://www.uberarticles.com/?id=35587&b=79 unique content version of this article.
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