While most people still use Internet Explorer as their web browser, a new one has surfaced and has started to get more and more people interested. I’m talking about Mozilla Firefox, an open-source browser that has many advantages that could help your business, while having very minor flaws.

Advantages

The first thing you will notice when browsing the World Wide Web with this browser is that you won’t get as many pop-ups as you normally would, which is a great advantage in itself and is worth downloading just for that feature. I tried it on a web page where normally with IE I would get 5 pop-ups, I went on the same page with Firefox and found out that no pop-ups were appearing!!! I tried it again with a page that would have given me 3 of those nasty things, to find out that again nothing was appearing. After doing some research on many sites with pop-ups. I can state by doing some research on over 100 sites with pop-ups that Firefox will block around 95% of them.

Another advantage is that while Internet Explorer still gives you the option to delete the cookies, clear the history and such, Mozilla Firefox will do all of that at one click of the mouse.

Disadvantage

The only minor flaw that Firefox might have is that some sites are not currently set-up to accept it, mainly small web sites. This though is not a major thing, as only 1% of sites are affected by this.

Closure

While I don’t suggest you to delete IE from your computer and go only with Firefox, I can say that since I changed, I rarely went back to IE, and the times I did were only to check a site that was not appearing correctly with Firefox. Firefox is really the browser of the future, that’s for sure.

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