5 Reasons Why Firefox Should Be Your Preferred Browser

Tired of errors showing up while using Internet Explorer? You can start using Firefox, The web browser created by the Mozilla Foundation, and start forgetting about security issues and pages not displaying properly because of his superior design.

Instead of stuffing many features into the product, Firefox was built with a solid foundation and has the ability to get new functionality in the form of "plug-ins", which are installed by users when they need them.

There are hundreds of reasons to use Firefox, but let me tell you 5 very important ones:

1. Internet Explorer was built to avoid standards whenever possible. If all browsers have the same functionality, it would be very easy for users to switch to another program, something Microsoft may dislike. This is changing now that Firefox is growing fast, but it seems that Microsoft intent is to lock you in the use of Internet Explorer as much as they can. Fight back and use Firefox instead.

2. Firefox is constantly improving. The life of Internet Explorer 1.0 began in 1,995. Netcape Navigator was the leading browser at that time, with more than 95% market share. Year after year Microsoft improved his browser and included it in all their products, Windows, Office, you name it, Explorer was there and it was impossible for Netscape to compete with that kind of monopolistic distribution. Internet Explorer 6.0 was released in 2,001, that is: 6 versions in 6 years. When Internet Explorer 6.0 got more than 90% market share, developments stopped till 2,007 when they released Internet Explorer 7.0. By then, Firefox and other browsers included many innovative features that Microsoft was not interested to add.

3. Firefox is secure. Internet Explorer has many known security issues (some could be fixed, some not) that allows the execution of unknown programs in your PC. Other browsers don't have these problems. Even the CERT (the US Computer Emergency Response Team) advised people to use a different browser other than Internet Explorer. You can find the article here: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998

4. Mozilla develops more solutions. The Mozilla Foundation is not worried about market share and develops useful programs as free Open Source, meaning that everybody could look at the source could if they wish. Not only they developed Firefox, but also, Thunderbird (to read email) NVU (a program to edit Web Pages) and many other excellent and useful software.

5. Firefox is open source. Nobody knows what is running inside Internet Explorer, but you can ask any good programmer to explain what the code is doing in Firefox, line by line because the source is open to all people. Maybe this may not affect you, but who knows when Microsoft could be using this for his own advantage.

While all this reasons are important, you should be using Firefox primarily because it is more secure and provides a better browsing experience than Internet Explorer. Maybe Microsoft will redesign or rewrite completely Internet Explorer in some future to be a more stable, but you can wait or start using a superior product that gets better every day, immediately. Download Firefox and feel the difference now.

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