Mozilla Firefox Reviewer's Comments
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Experience the simplistic power of Mozilla Firefox, one of the original FREE Internet browsers and “TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award” winner. This web browser packs top–notch features and blazing speed into a tidy, intuitive interface that will help you rediscover the World Wide Web.
A few outstanding features include tabbed browsing, an integrated search engine and many add–ons of all types. Some missing features we would like to see are thumbnail previews, parental controls and anti–phishing protection.
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Features Set:
Mozilla Firefox has 22 categories of add–ons to customize and enhance your web browsing experience. Categories include blogging, tools, entertainment, humor, news, privacy and security and more. You can add style to your browser with skins and themes. Or, equip your browser bar with a dictionary or add a media toolbar with games and other forms of entertainment.
Firefox has tabbed browsing so you can quickly jump from site to site and open more than one website in the same browser window. There is an add–on for voice interaction so you can navigate the Internet through simple voice commands.
This is a good browser for students or others who conduct research on the Internet. Mozilla has developed virtual sticky notes so you can add your own notes to webpages, and they will be there when you return.
Some features Firefox doesn’t offer are widgets, synchronize and parental controls.
Security:
Firefox protects against viruses, spyware and pop–ups; however, it doesn’t have a phishing detector.
You can easily clear your personal information including history, cookies, passwords and web–form entries with the click of a button.
Ease of Use:
Mozilla’s website is well organized using the tab system so you can find downloads and the information you’re looking for. This ideal of user–friendliness carries over to Firefox. The browser has an easy–to–use interface that isn’t cluttered with buttons and links.
Ease of Installation/Setup:
We didn’t encounter any problems while downloading and setting up Firefox.
Help/Support:
Mozilla provides lots of useful online documentation including FAQs, a knowledge base and tutorial. However, there is no contact information for Mozilla.
Summary:
Mozilla Firefox is a FREE download; the numerous add–ons are also free. This is a simple, user–friendly browser; however, there are so many add–ons it would also be good for someone who likes to customize and construct their ultimate browsing application.
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