Advantages of Firefox
FireFox |
Internet Explorer |
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Security |
Blocks Spyware and malware Doesn't rely on: o digital signatures o security zones o doesn't include ActiveX component (which has always been used by certain websites to execute dangerous scripts and install malicious components on your computer) |
Love Spyware viruses and pop- ups |
Tabbed Browsing |
Tabbed browsing (allows you to open multiple documents in the same window) |
Tabbed browsing (newly applied to version7) |
Download Manager |
Allows user to pause/resume downloads, |
Lacks a download manager |
Control Over the Page Content |
You can block o Ads o JavaScript o Images You can have power over the fonts and color of the websites default settings Spell checking (useful for blogging and forms fillings online) Full support: o CSS 2 o W3C |
Partial support: o CSS 2 o W3C (does not allow the websites styled using CSS 2 to be displayed in the right way) |
