Firefox browser review
I read in the morning paper yesterday that the first official release of Firefox was coming out yesterday. The review was very positive, so I figured I should take a look.
For those that haven't heard already, the selling point about Firefox is that it is more secure against hackers and spyware than Internet Explorer. That should be enough of a reason to try it out.
But after a quick download, which you can get at the Mozilla site, I found lots of nice surprises. First of all, after going through the painless setup, upon first execution it asks you if you want to import your Internet Explorer files (cookies, temporary files, and most importantly of all your "favorites" which Firefox calls "bookmarks").
Once it goes through that task, the time it takes to start up is much faster than Internet Explorer, very noticeable.
The thing I like the most, which I found after playing around a while, is their "open in tabs" feature. What you can do is set up a bookmark folder of your most frequently used pages, and then instead of accessing them individually, click on the "open in tab" link, and it will open up every bookmarked page in that folder. You can then easily go back and forth between all your favorite sites painlessly, and extremely fast.
I'm sure there's a lot I don't know about Firefox, but what I do know is I do like it very much. The main selling point is it's more secure against hackers and spyware, but there is so much more to it. And it seems to have given me back a lot of my computer power to boot.
I recommend you give it a try, you don't have to make it your default browser right away, but you might want to after working with it for a while.
For those that haven't heard already, the selling point about Firefox is that it is more secure against hackers and spyware than Internet Explorer. That should be enough of a reason to try it out.
But after a quick download, which you can get at the Mozilla site, I found lots of nice surprises. First of all, after going through the painless setup, upon first execution it asks you if you want to import your Internet Explorer files (cookies, temporary files, and most importantly of all your "favorites" which Firefox calls "bookmarks").
Once it goes through that task, the time it takes to start up is much faster than Internet Explorer, very noticeable.
The thing I like the most, which I found after playing around a while, is their "open in tabs" feature. What you can do is set up a bookmark folder of your most frequently used pages, and then instead of accessing them individually, click on the "open in tab" link, and it will open up every bookmarked page in that folder. You can then easily go back and forth between all your favorite sites painlessly, and extremely fast.
I'm sure there's a lot I don't know about Firefox, but what I do know is I do like it very much. The main selling point is it's more secure against hackers and spyware, but there is so much more to it. And it seems to have given me back a lot of my computer power to boot.
I recommend you give it a try, you don't have to make it your default browser right away, but you might want to after working with it for a while.
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