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5.0 stars
"Almost perfect web browser"
Pros: Secure, fast, tabs, extensions, themes, popup blocking, great
Cons: No interface language selection like in Mozilla Suite
Summary: I'm using Firefox for about 6 months now and it has never let me down like Internet Explorer has done many times.
What I first noticed about Firefox is how clean and simple the interface is. But behind this clean interface is a lot of power. All the features that one can't live without while browsing are here: tabs, popup-blocking, quick search (it can also highlight all the words you search for on the page), security and the best support for all new and old internet standards (like (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScrip, DHTML and so on). It looks like Firefox is also very quick to display web pages, even on the same speed internet connection. Support for RSS and Atom feeds is also here in form of LiveBookmarks. This makes it a lot easier to subscribe to blogs and news pages. Although there are a lot of very nice features already in Firefox you can easily add new ones by using extensions. So make sure you check them out and get things like mouse gestures and advanced ad blocking.
What I also like about Firefox a lot is that it is very quickly translated into my mother language. I can't say this for other browsers (well except for Konqueror in KDE). The only thing I miss is the interface language selection tool like in Mozilla Suite.
It is also important that your computer is safe when you browse. And here Firefox is also in the lead. If bugs are found they are usually not critical like in IE and they are fixed extremely quickly and you don't have to wait for months (or even years) to get extremely critical bugs fixed like with IE.
Themes are another very nice thing about Firefox (especially important if you ask my sister
). With them you can make Firefox look exactly as you like. There are also special themes for kids.
All in all Firefox is an almost perfect browser. It just need a little polish in some places. If you still use old and insecure browsers like Internet Explorer be sure to check out Mozilla Firefox. You will never go back.
