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10 reasons why the Mozilla Firefox browser rocks:
The Firefox browser plus orbit theme for Firefox.
Browsing in Tabs
Allows you to load pages into separate tabs.
You can bookmark a group of tabs. e.g. you can open 5 different web sites and
bookmark them all with one click. (select Bookmarks, Add, and tick
the "File as group" option.)
Popup Windows
Disable all those annoying PopUp and PopUnder adverts.
Ad Blocking
You can block all images from a server (e.g. a banner advert site) simply right
click the image and "Block images from" (this server)
Settings
Change your mind about any configuration changes you apply
- rather than a bunch of cryptic keys hidden in the registry somewhere, most
settings can be edited
right under the Tools menu.
For advanced stuff just type about:config into
the URL bar.
Skins
The default appearance of Firefox is pretty uninspiring, but I guess this
is to encourage you to install one of the many cool skins available -
e.g. Orbit
for Firefox
Google
Set google as the default search in the sidebar, address
bar and context menu.
Saving pages
Firefox allows IE style saving of HTML pages with or without graphics attached,
but takes this a step further - you can context click and "View Page Info,
Media" - this will list all the images (including any Flash animations)
and allow you to save individual files.
You can also select any part of an HTML page and context click to "view
selection source".
Notify new content
Under the properties of a bookmark - you can ask Firefox to check the page
periodically and notify you whenever it's updated.
Performance
Even before you disable popups, Firefox is as fast if not faster than
IE - to test this try loading the same page in each browser, but clear the
cache
first
so
you
get
a fair comparison.
Deploy across an Organisation
The site firefox.dbltree.com has
instructions and code for this
Related Links
Browser
Wars - Salon
Dvorak - Mozilla
upstart attacks Microsoft Slackers
Browser Security Test - On-line
Health Check
Google Toolbar for Firefox
Mozilla FAQ
FireFox Extensions -
add additional functions
Hidden Prefs
MozBackups -
backup mail, favorites, contacts, etc
