Why Firefox is better than Internet Explorer

I want to make some quick comparison to show the differences between Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

1. Memory usage. I heard many times: “Firefox is using too much memory”. I have opened 9 tabs in Firefox, and 9 tabs in Internet Explorer, the results:



This image shows that Internet explorer is using more memory than Firefox.

2. Pop-ups. Firefox has an integrated pop-up blocker, when you enter a website with pop-ups, firefox tell you that a pop-up for that website was blocked, but if you want to see that pop-up, it have option to allow pop-ups for that website. Why you need to use 3rd party pop-up blockers or other softwares, when you can have it with firefox ? I don’t have to mention that Internet explorer don’t have integrated pop-up blocker.



3. Browsing speed. On internet explorer, all page elements are loaded before the page is displayed, so if the page have a lot of images and elements in it, will be displayed with some delay after you type the address in the address bar. Firefox shows the page elements and images immediately after they are loaded, and you will see first the header, then the menu. You don’t need to wait to see the header until the footer is loaded.

4. Loading speed, there isn’t too much difference between the two browsers, the experts demonstrated that firefox is a little faster that internet explorer, but the difference is too small to include this in comparison.

5. Restore Session. If your operating system crashes while you are browsing, you will not loose anything. Probably you heard many times: “Your computer needs to be restarted to complete the installation, please save all your work and close all programs before continue”, but with firefox you can ignore these messages, if you shut down or restart your computer without closing firefox, next time you want to start it you will get a message asking you if you want to restore session or open a new one.

6. Plugins. In firefox you can quick install plugins to do different things. Go to Tools -> Add -ons to manage plugins. To find plugins, follow the “Get Extensions” link. It will forward you to mozilla plugin directory. There are about 2000 plugins, all free and all kind, some or them are made to improve browsing, others are for programmers, for designers, for webmasters, etc. To see a list with best plugins for firefox you can go to http://www.linuxmonitor.net/blog/2007/03/things-to-do-immediately-after.html . The best plugin in my opinion is Google Browser Sync. I’m using different computers to access the internet, and this helps me to keep bookmarks and passwords synchronized.

If you are already using firefox, you should know that firefox is much better than internet explorer and you don’t need to check yourself the differences.

If you don’t use firefox, what are you waiting for ? Just go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and download it.

By: Apostol Lucian

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