Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that managed to gain a foothold when the market was completely occupied by Internet Explorer. His secret power and versatility, gained through years of development, and a huge catalog of extensions to increase their chances to infinity.
A modern and attractive browser
If anything has characterized Mozilla Firefox is progressively introducing new enhancements that make the program more attractive and easy to use.
Although not introduced Firefox tabbed browsing, it does the program has been popularized over the system so widespread. Now, in their latest versions, has placed them at the bar, more accessible, and has introduced Panorama: a visual manager that organizes groups.
In addition to usability improvements, Mozilla Firefox also brings purely aesthetic functions. This is the case of People, a collection of themes or skins to that will give a unique look to your browser. These skins are previewed directly to avoid having to install them and know how to remain.
But not everything is appearance among the virtues of Firefox. If something has earned the favor of the users is their compatibility with standards. HTML5 and CSS3 are supported almost entirely by the usual and plug-ins such as Java and Flash.
In Mozilla Firefox are constant improvements in rendering engines (Gecko) and Javascript (Jägermonkey) to lighten the program to become one of the fastest to load pages with new technology.
¿Expandable to infinity?
Another section that gives a unique personalization are the extensions, add-ons or plug-ins that are installed to provide new features to your Firefox. Thanks to them, you have a browser made to order, consuming resources just for your needs. Here are some examples of essential extensions:
- Adblock Plus blocks ads from sites
- DownThemAll: download multiple files at once
- Video DownloadHelper: Download videos from any page
- Stylish: changes the appearance of a website
- Greasemonkey: scripts applied to many other functions
- Picnik: a graphic editor Photoshop style
- ... And more here ...
Our opinion
Firefox has become its own right in one of the standard web browser and a model for free software. Overcome the doubts of his first versions of its high consumption of resources, we have to admit the obvious: browse with Mozilla program is a pleasure to suit the tastes of each user.
However, there are still areas in which Firefox is unsurpassed lightness, ease of installation of extensions dedicated Web applications ... Ways in which his main rival, Google Chrome, still benefit.
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